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
Ageniella
(
Ameragenia
)
ursula
(Banks)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
:
Santo Domingo Province
,
Santo Domingo
, Botanical Gardens;
24 April 2021
; F. Paz. Host:
Hibana velox
(Becker) (Anyphaenidae)
, adult male. One photograph shows the wasp standing on a leaf straddling the paralyzed delimbed ghost spider, venter to venter, grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles. Another photograph shows the wasp straddling the same spider but venter to dorsum, attempting to grasp the spider’s chelicera with her mandibles (Paz,
Santo Domingo
, Dominican Republic, 2021 pers. comm.; Tosto 2021 pers. comm.).