Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg)

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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793331
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793237
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treatment provided by	Felipe (2024-03-06 13:53:50, last updated 2024-03-07 11:46:47)
scientific name	Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg)
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Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg) View in CoL (Erratum from Kurczewski et al. 2020)

ARGENTINA: Mendoza Province, Las Heras; 24 August 2022, 2:54 PM; D. Ganime. Host: Lycosa erythrognatha Lucas ( Lycosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized wolf spider by the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles and pulled it backwards, dorsal side upward, across stones and large rocks. She interrupted prey transport to move into grasses to groom herself before resuming transport of the spider ( Ganime 2022).

This is the first host record and new host family, genus, and species for Arachnospila trochilinus , if it is that species. The host spider is the same as for A. imitatrix , Lycosa erythrognatha , reported simply as? Lycosa sp. ( Kurczewski et al. 2020). In that paper, the wasp captor was erroneously reported as Anoplius (Arachnophroctonus) sobrinus (Spinola) .

References

Ganime D. 2022. Spider Wasps (Family Pompilidae). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 132208905. (Last accessed 24 August 2022.)

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.