Auplopus militaris (Lynch-Arribalzaga)

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 10

Auplopus militaris (Lynch-Arribalzaga)

BRAZIL: São Paulo State, São Paulo; 31 May 2009 ; Violinha. Host: Unidentified species ( Salticidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp straddled the immobilized jumping spider venter to venter and grasped its spinnerets with her mandibles. The spider’s legs were still intact ( Violinha 2009).

MEXICO: Sinaloa State, Mazatlán; 27 September 2020, 1505 HST; F. Farriols Sarabia. Host: Balmaceda ? minor (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge) ( Salticidae ), adult or penultimate male, with all legs cut off at coxa-trochanter joints. A series of photographs show the wasp examining a leg amputation, resting with the immobilized, delimbed jumping spider underneath, and transporting the spider forward. While resting and during prey transport, she held the spider venter to venter and grasped its spinnerets with her mandibles ( Farriols Sarabia 2020b).