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
1
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10793331
1942-1354
10793331
853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
Pepsis sumptuosa
Smith
COLOMBIA
:
Cundinamarca Department
, Tequendama Province, San Antonio del Tequendama;
8 October 2021
; B. L. C. Bonilla. Host:
Pamphobeteus
sp.
(
Theraphosidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles (
Bonilla 2021
).
There are several other host records for
P.sumptuosa
from
Colombia
with various genera of
Theraphosidae (
Kurczewski et al. 2020
)
.
Pepsis inclyta
species-group (
Vardy 2005
)