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.).