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
6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
Hemipepsis mexicana
(Cresson)
COSTA RICA
:
Puntarenas Province
, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve;
11 January 2011
; E. García-Padilla. Host:
Cupiennius salei
(Keyserling)
(Tiger wandering spider) (
Trechaleidae
), adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp pulling the paralyzed banana spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (E. García-Padilla, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2020 pers. comm.; F. E.
Kurczewski, 2020
pers. obs.).