Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz)

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793219
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scientific name	Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz)
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Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz) View in CoL

ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Magdalena; 4 December 2022, 3:06 PM; M. Arregui. Host: Araneus lathyrinus (Holmberg) ( Araneidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood on a leaf above ground level grasping the immobilized orb-weaver by the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles, retaining it in a perpendicular position ( Fig. 14 View Figures 13–18 ; Arregui 2023).

This is the first host record for Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous , Araneus lathyrinus , which is the typical host spider family for most species in this genus ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).

ARGENTINA: Santa Fe Province, Nueve de Julio County; 3 March 2023, 1703 PM; I. M. Churruarin. Host: Ocrepeira venustula (Keyserling) ( Araneidae ), adult female. The wasp, clinging upside down to an upright narrow stem, held the orb-weaver cephalothorax upward, grasping the base of its left foreleg with her mandibles ( Churruarin 2023).

Ocrepeira venustula (Keyserling) ( Araneidae ) is a new host genus and species for Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous . This is the second host record for P. costatus oenochrous .

References

Arregui M. 2023. Genus Poecilopompilus. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 147150290. (Last accessed 23 January 2023.)

Churruarin IM. 2023. Genus Poecilopompilus. Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 150409347. (Last accessed 18 March 2023.)

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.

Kurczewski FE, West RC, Waichert C, Pitts JP. 2022 b. Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0928: 1 - 32.

Figures

Figures 13–18. Pompilid species with host spiders. 13) Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say) with Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin and Ivie, female. © Linda Mikolayenko. 14) Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz) with Araneus lathyrinus (Holmberg) (Araneidae), adult or subadult female. © Martin Arregui. 15) Tachypompilus vulpes (Dalla Torre) with Polybetes?pythagoricus (Holmberg) (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female. © Paulo Aranã. 16) Anoplius (Notiochares) triquetrus (Fox) with Pavocosa sp. (Lycosidae), adult or subadult male. © Alexandre Ferreira Righi. 17) Xerochares expulsus (Schulz) with Curicaberis minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Sparassidae), penultimate male.© Georgia Born-Schmidt and M. Schmidt.18) Arachnospila titicacaensis (Strand) with Hogna?rufimanoides (Strand) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. © Francesco Romano and Nirvana Angela Marting Vidaurre.