Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson)

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Zootaxa 4891 (1), pp. 1-112 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6B0E1135-8C4E-4341-9793-AB970FBCD10B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344621
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0C7764-FFAB-FF98-07AA-FE8BFD07FDFA
treatment provided by	Plazi (2020-12-07 10:01:34, last updated by Carolina 2024-06-21 15:29:45)
scientific name	Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson)
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Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson) View in CoL

COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Province, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve; 11 January 2011; E. García-Padilla. Host: Cupiennius salei (Keyserling) (Tiger wandering spider) ( Trechaleidae ), adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp pulling the paralyzed banana spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (E. García-Padilla, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2020 pers. comm.; F. E. Kurczewski, 2020 pers. obs.).

References

Kurczewski, F. E., West, R. C., Stoll, J. W., Kissane, K. C. & Cobb, N. S. (2020) Geographic variation in host selection in the spider wasps Entypus unifasciatus and Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). [in preparation]