New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
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Author
West, Rick C.
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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 varipennis
Lepeletier
BRAZIL
:
São Paulo State
, Rifaina;
31 August 2021
; F. Baraldi. Host:
Vitalius dubius
(Mello-Leitão, 1923)
(
Theraphosidae
), subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across the ground and low vegetation, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its second left leg with her mandibles. She released the spider in the entrance, entered the burrow, reappeared in the entrance, grasped
the tarantula
in the same manner, and dragged it inside (
Baraldi 2021
).
There are two previous host records for
P. varipennis
, both species of
Theraphosidae
(
Kurczewski et al 2020
).
Vitalius dubius
is a new host genus and species for
P. varipennis
.
Pepsis montezuma
species-group (
Vardy 2005
)