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
Auplopus bellus
(Cresson)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
:
Azua Province
, Padre Las Casas;
May 2015
; F. A. Suriel. Host:
Hibana velox
(Becker) (Anyphaenidae)
, adult or subadult female. The wasp stood on a leaf and straddled the paralyzed delimbed ghost spider, venter to venter, while grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles (Suriel, Padre Las Casas, Dominican Republic, 2015 pers. comm.; Tosto, Las Galeras,
Samaná
, Dominican Republic, 2021 pers. comm.).