Poecilopompilus interruptus (Say)

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 : 19

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scientific name	Poecilopompilus interruptus (Say)
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Poecilopompilus interruptus (Say) View in CoL

DELAWARE: Sussex County, Ellendale; 18 August 2022, 1623 EDT; E. Green. Host: Araneus marmoreus Clerck ( Araneidae ), adult female. The wasp dragged the marbled orbweaver across a path, dorsal side upward, grasping a leg with her mandibles. She released the spider, dorsal side upward, on the path and examined it with her antennae ( Green 2022).

Araneus marmoreus View in CoL is a new host species for Poecilopompilus interruptus View in CoL ( Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Krombein 1979; Kurczewski and Edwards 2012; Kurczewski et al. 2017, 2020, 2022).

FLORIDA: Leon County, Miccosukee Land Cooperative; 26 June 2023. 1916 EDT; T. Kelley. Host: Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus) View in CoL ( Araneidae View in CoL ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the golden silk orb-weaver by its pedicel with her mandibles ( Kelley 2023).

Trichonephila clavipes View in CoL ( Araneidae View in CoL ) is a new host genus and species for Poecilopompilus interruptus View in CoL ( Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Krombein 1979; Kurczewski and Edwards 2012; Kurczewski et al. 2017, 2020, 2022).

References

Evans HE, Yoshimoto CM. 1962. The ecology and nesting behavior of the Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) of the northeastern United States. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 3: 67 - 119.

Green E, 2022. Interrupted Spider Wasp (Poecilopompilus interruptus). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 131376651. (Last accessed 18 August 2022.)

Kelley T. 2023. Interrupted Spider Wasp (Poecilopompilus interruptus). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 169870271. (Last accessed 27 June 2023.)

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.

Kurczewski FE, Edwards GB, Pitts JP. 2017. Hosts, nesting behavior, and ecology of some North American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), II. Southeastern Naturalist 16 (Monograph 9): 1 - 82.

Kurczewski FE, West RC, Waichert C, Kissane KC, Ubick D, Pitts JP. 2020. New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 4891: 1 - 112.