Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say)

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 : 17

Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say)

CANADA: Saskatchewan Province, Division No. 18; 10 June 2023; 1525 CST; L. Mikolayenko. Host: Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin and Ivie ( Araneidae ), adult female. The wasp grasped two long thin leaves with its tarsi, above ground level, while holding the immobilized orb-weaver, dorsal side upward, by the base of its left forecoxa with her mandibles ( Fig. 13 ; Mikolayenko 2023).

Araneus gemmoides is a new host species for this common spider wasp species. Host records for Episyron quinquenotatus are for various genera and species of Araneidae ( Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Kurczewski 2001; Kurczewski and Kiernan 2015).

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Figures 13–18. Pompilid species with host spiders. 13) Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say) with Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin and Ivie, female. © Linda Mikolayenko. 14) Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz) with Araneus lathyrinus (Holmberg) (Araneidae), adult or subadult female. © Martin Arregui. 15) Tachypompilus vulpes (Dalla Torre) with Polybetes?pythagoricus (Holmberg) (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female. © Paulo Aranã. 16) Anoplius (Notiochares) triquetrus (Fox) with Pavocosa sp. (Lycosidae), adult or subadult male. © Alexandre Ferreira Righi. 17) Xerochares expulsus (Schulz) with Curicaberis minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Sparassidae), penultimate male.© Georgia Born-Schmidt and M. Schmidt.18) Arachnospila titicacaensis (Strand) with Hogna?rufimanoides (Strand) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. © Francesco Romano and Nirvana Angela Marting Vidaurre.