Xerochares expulsus (Schulz)

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 17-18

Xerochares expulsus (Schulz)

ARIZONA: Pinal County, Superior, Boyce Thompson Institute; 21 February 2022, 1657 MST; K. Harrington, Host: Olios giganteus Keyserling (Sparassidae) , juvenile. The wasp was photographed standing beside the immobilized prey with raised wings, examining it as it laid on the ground, and transporting it backwards grasping the trochanter of its left foreleg with her mandibles ( Harrington 2022).

MEXICO: Sinaloa State, Angostura Municipality, Angostura; 14 June 2021; M. A. Sanzon. Host: Curicaberis ? culiacan Rheims ( Sparassidae ), adult female. The wasp straddled the immobilized huntsman spider, dorsal side upward, grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles as she rested atop it on a dried leaf ( Sanzon 2021; Sanzon, Polytechnic University of Évora Valley, Sinaloa, Mexico).