Calopompilus setaerotundus Waichert and Pitts

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 : 7

Calopompilus setaerotundus Waichert and Pitts

GUATEMALA: Baja Verapaz Department, Purulha, Biotopo del Quetzal; 4 April 2017; C. Gaitán (biogaitan). Host:? Longilyra sp. ( Theraphosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its right foreleg with her mandibles ( Gaitán 2017).

HONDURAS: Department of Cortés, Cusuco National Park ; 25 June 2009; A. Snyder. Host: Longilyra sp., juvenile female. The wasp straddled and stung the tarantula, ventral side upward, as it laid on the ground ( Snyder 2009; S. Longhorn, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018 pers. comm.) .