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.
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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
1
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10793331
1942-1354
10793331
853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
Pepsis aciculata
Taschenberg
ARGENTINA
:
Córdoba Province
, San Javier;
18 February 2021
; P. Scazzina. Host:
Plesiopelma longisternale
(Schiapelli and Gerschman)
(
Theraphosidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula as it laid on its left side on the ground. She then dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards across a dirt road, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles (
Scazzina 2022
).
Pepsis aciculata
has been reported previously with
Plesiopelma longisternale
and
Grammostola vachoni
Schiapelli and Gerschman
in
Argentina
(
Copperi et al. 2011
).