Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg)

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 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10793237

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF99-F757-FF14-032B9AA0FA7D

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg)
status

 

Arachnospila trochilinus (Holmberg) View in CoL (Erratum from Kurczewski et al. 2020)

ARGENTINA: Mendoza Province, Las Heras; 24 August 2022, 2:54 PM; D. Ganime. Host: Lycosa erythrognatha Lucas ( Lycosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized wolf spider by the base of its left pedipalp with her mandibles and pulled it backwards, dorsal side upward, across stones and large rocks. She interrupted prey transport to move into grasses to groom herself before resuming transport of the spider ( Ganime 2022).

This is the first host record and new host family, genus, and species for Arachnospila trochilinus , if it is that species. The host spider is the same as for A. imitatrix , Lycosa erythrognatha , reported simply as? Lycosa sp. ( Kurczewski et al. 2020). In that paper, the wasp captor was erroneously reported as Anoplius (Arachnophroctonus) sobrinus (Spinola) .

PM

Pratt Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Arachnospila

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