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
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10793331
1942-1354
10793331
853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
Pepsis smaragdina
Dahlbom
BRAZIL
:
Rio de Janeiro State
; Nova Iguaçu; Tinguá Biological Reserve;
16 December 2022
; D. Luiz. Host:
Idiops camelus
(Mello-Leitão)
(
Idiopidae
), adult female. The wasp stood beside the immobilized armored trapdoor spi- der and examined it with her antennae and mouthparts as it laid ventral side upward or on its right side on the ground (
Luiz 2022
).
The genus
Idiops
Perty
has been captured by
Pepsis smaragdina
before in
Brazil
(
Vardy 2005
).
Idiops camelus
, however, is a new host species for
P. smaragdina
.
Pepsis ruficornis
species-group (
Vardy 2005
)