Pompilocalus nemequene Roig-Alsina, 1989

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF8C-F742-FF14-02429EA3F992
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pompilocalus nemequene Roig-Alsina
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Pompilocalus nemequene Roig-Alsina View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Risaralda Department. Marsella County, Belalcazar Municipality, Caldas; 24 January 2023, 1437 PM; J. D. Arango. Host: Strophaeus sp. ( Barychelidae ), juvenile. The wasp entered the spider’s burrow with the trapdoor partly open and must have enticed or chased the brush-footed trapdoor spider onto the ground surface whereupon she stung and immobilized it. The wasp then grasped the spider by its right hind coxa-trochanter joint with her mandibles and began dragging it backwards across the ground, possibly into its own burrow ( Arango 2023a).

Strophaeus sp. ( Barychelidae View in CoL ) is a new host family and genus for Pompilocalus nemequene View in CoL . Two previous host records for P. nemequene View in CoL from Bolivia and Colombia are for species of Ctenidae View in CoL ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).