New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
Author
West, Rick C.
Author
Waichert, Cecilia
Author
Kissane, Kelly C.
Author
Ubick, Darrell
Author
Pitts, James P.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-07
4891
1
1
112
journal article
9376
10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
8cd88652-1627-4fbe-891d-062b3e02e511
1175-5326
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Entypus magnus
(Cresson)
GA: Gordon County, Oakman;
2 July 2020
; L. Kimmerling (flowntheloop). Host:
Agelenopsis
cf
naevia
(Walckenaer) (
Agelenidae
), subadult adult male. A series of photographs show the wasp staddling the paralyzed grass spider, venter to dorsum, dragging it along the ground and up a vertical structure by grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles. The spider’s first pair of walking legs were missing and probably lost during the capture by the wasp (
Kimmerling 2020
).
TX: Wise County,
9 km
W of Greenwood, south side of Cottonwood Lake;
4 July 2020
; J. Newman (jwn). Host:
Rabidosa rabida
, subadult male. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider backwards through low grasses, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (
Newman 2020
).