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 text Insecta Mundi 2024 2024-03-01 2024 34 1 32 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).