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
8cd88652-1627-4fbe-891d-062b3e02e511
1175-5326
4309249
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Agenioideus
(
Gymnochares
)
birkmanni
(Banks)
WI: Portage County, Stevens Point;
6 August 2019
; A. Plonsky (aceofdisgrace). Host:
Agelenopsis
sp., adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp struggle to pull the paralyzed grass spider vertically up the outside wall of a house, ventral side upward, grasping its chelicera with her mandibles, before losing her footing and both falling to the ground (
Plonsky 2019
).