New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Author
Kurczewski, Frank E.
Author
West, Rick C.
Author
Waichert, Cecilia
Author
Kissane, Kelly C.
Author
Ubick, Darrell
Author
Pitts, James P.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-07
4891
1
1
112
journal article
9376
10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
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1175-5326
4309249
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Auplopus subaurarius
Dreisbach
BRAZIL
: State of
Espírito Santo
, Marechal Floriano;
12 May 2020
; C. Waichert. Host:?
Aysha
sp. (
Anyphaenidae
), adult or subadult females. The wasp made four nest cells, over a period of several days, under a desk inside the residence. The wasp never returned. Several days later, one of the nest cells was opened to reveal paralyzed, partially delimbed host spiders of what appeared to be all the same-sized species (C. Waichert, Vila Velha, Brazil, 2020 pers. obs.;
R
. Bertani, Instituto Butantan, S„o Paulo, Brazil, 2019 pers. comm.; M. Ramirez, Museo
Argentino
de Ciencias Naturales, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020 pers. comm.).