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
4309249
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Calopompilus setaerotundus
Waichert and Pitts
GUATEMALA
:
Baja Verapaz Department
, Purulha, Biotopo del Quetzal;
4 April 2017
; C. Gaitán (biogaitan). Host:?
Longilyra
sp. (
Theraphosidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles (
Gaitán 2017
).
HONDURAS
:
Department
of
Cortés
,
Cusuco National Park
;
25 June 2009
;
A. Snyder
. Host:
Longilyra
sp., juvenile female. The wasp straddled and stung the tarantula, ventral side upward, as it laid on the ground (
Snyder 2009
; S. Longhorn, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018 pers. comm.)
.