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
1
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10793331
1942-1354
10793331
853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
Arachnospila trochilinus
(Holmberg)
(Erratum from
Kurczewski et al. 2020
)
ARGENTINA
:
Mendoza Province
, Las Heras;
24 August 2022
, 2:54
PM
; D. Ganime. Host:
Lycosa erythrognatha
Lucas
(
Lycosidae
), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized wolf spider by the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles and pulled it backwards, dorsal side upward, across stones and large rocks. She interrupted prey transport to move into grasses to groom herself before resuming transport of the spider (
Ganime 2022
).
This is the first host record and new host family, genus, and species for
Arachnospila trochilinus
, if it is that species. The host spider is the same as for
A. imitatrix
,
Lycosa erythrognatha
, reported simply as?
Lycosa
sp.
(
Kurczewski et al. 2020
). In that paper, the wasp captor was erroneously reported as
Anoplius
(
Arachnophroctonus
)
sobrinus
(Spinola)
.