Entypus sp.

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 : 14

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scientific name	Entypus sp.
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Entypus sp.

ARGENTINA: La Pampa ; 4 April 2020; U. S. Zaldua. Host: Polybetes pallidus Mello-Leitão ( Sparassidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards across the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right chelicera with her mandibles ( Zaldua 2020).

Polybetes pallidus View in CoL is a new host genus and species for an Entypus species in the Americas. Sparassidae View in CoL is an uncommon host family for Entypus View in CoL in South America ( Kurczewski 2020, 2022b).

References

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.

Zaldua US. 2020. Genero Entypus (avispas caza tarantulas). Available at https: // www. instagram. com / p / B-j 3 xwpAQVF /. (Last accessed 10 February 2023.)