Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere 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
Complexo Biopráticas, Universidade Vila Velha, Vila Velha, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Author
Pitts, James P.
Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
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Insecta Mundi
2022
2022-04-29
2022
928
1
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.6533498
1942-1354
6533498
48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC
Epipompilus aztecus
(Cresson)
MEXICO
:
México State
, Ixtapan de la Sal;
20 November 2020
; A. Gómez Benítez. Host:
Ariadna pilifera
O. P.-Cambridge (
Segestriidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the immobilized tube-dwelling spider backwards, dorsal side upward, across the ground for
60 cm
, grasping its loose posterior abdominal cuticle with her mandibles (
Fig. 1
;
Gómez Benítez 2020
;
Gómez Benítez 2020
pers. comm.).