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Ageniella (Ageniella) coronata Banks, 1919

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C. & Waichert, Cecilia, 2024, New host records for Nearctic and Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2024 (34), pp. 1-32 : 15

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331

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 lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352

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scientific name

 Ageniella (Ageniella) coronata Banks
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Ageniella (Ageniella) coronata Banks View in CoL

NEVADA: Washoe County, Reno; 2 July 2023, 1518 PDT; G. R. Newblom. Host: Scotophaeus blackwalli (Thorell) ( Gnaphosidae ), adult female. The wasp stung the ground spider in its cephalothorax near the base of its second left coxa while maintaining a dorsal side upward position as it curved its abdomen and sting underneath the host ( Newblom 2023).

Scotophaeus blackwalli View in CoL ( Gnaphosidae View in CoL ) is a new host species, genus, and family for Ageniella coronata View in CoL . Prior host records for this species include Lycosidae View in CoL , Tengellidae , and Clubionidae View in CoL ( Krombein 1979; Kurczewski and Edwards 2012).

Krombein KV. 1979. Family Pompilidae. p. 1523 - 1570, In: Krombein KV, Hurd PD Jr, Smith DR, and Burks BD (Eds.). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2, Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC: 1199 - 2209.

Kurczewski FE, Edwards GB. 2012. Hosts, nesting behavior, and ecology of some North American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Southeastern Naturalist 11 (Monograph 4): 1 - 71.

Newblom GR. 2023. Genus Ageniella. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 171036863. (Last accessed 5 July 2023.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Ageniella

Specimens