New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
1188 Converse Drive NE Atlanta, GA 30324
Author
West, Rick C.
6365 Willowpark Way Sooke, BC, Canada V 9 Z 1 L 9
Author
Waichert, Cecilia
Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília Brasília, DF, 70910 - 900, Brazil
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Insecta Mundi
2024
2024-03-01
2024
34
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10793331
1942-1354
10793331
853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
Pepsis albocincta
Smith
(black-winged variant)
BRAZIL
:
Minas Gerais State
, Betim;
1 December 2020
,
14 March 2023
;
V
. F. Rodrigues. Host:?
Actinopus
sp.
(
Actinopodidae
), adult or subadult female. Photographs show the wasp standing beside or straddling the paralyzed mouse spider, venter to dorsum, while examining it with her antennae as it laid dorsal side upward on the ground. Two videos show the wasp manipulate, then grasp the host spider’s leg with the mandibles, and drag the spider backwards (
Rodrigues 2023a
, b, c, d).
This is the first host record and new host family and genus for
Pepsis albocincta
and indicates a selectivity for species of
Actinopodidae
(mouse spiders).