Poecilopompilus, Ashmead, 1902

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 : 45

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1

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scientific name

Poecilopompilus
status

 

Poecilopompilus spp. (unidentified)

BRAZIL: State of Rio Grande do Sul, Colinos; 27 December 2009; G. Mazzarollo. Host: Argiope argentata (Fabricius) (Silver argiope) ( Araneidae ), adult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed orbweaver by the base of the coxa of the 1 st or 2 nd left leg during transport ( Mazzarollo 2009).

BRAZIL: State of S„o Paulo, Jacareí; 20 April 2011; T. Nascimento de Melo (tomaz_melo). Host:? Misumena sp. (Flower crab spider) ( Thomisidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood over or beside the paralyzed flower crab spider as it laid on grass, dorsal side upward ( Nascimento de Melo 2011).

COSTA RICA: Alajuela Province, San Ramón; 1 September 2017; Y. Villalobos. Host: Misumena vatia (Clerck) (Goldenrod crab spider) ( Thomisidae ). The wasp stood near the paralyzed crab spider as it laid, ventral side upward, on the ground ( Villalobos 2017).

COSTA RICA: Alajuela Province, San Ramón, Soltis Center; May 2018; S. Marshall. Host: Unidentified species ( Thomisidae ), adult or subadult female. A photograph of a wasp standing near the paralyzed crab spider as it laid, ventral side upward, on a leaf above the ground (S. A. Marshall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2020 pers. comm.) .

COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Province, Tilarán ; 2 July 2018; A. Pereira (anapereira7909). Host:? Misumessus sp. (Thomidiae), adult or subadult female. The wasp stood over the paralyzed crab spider as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground (Pereira 2018) .

Mazzarollo, G. (2009) Wasp eating spider. Available from: https: // www. flickr. com / photos / gmazza / 4220003664 / in / album- 72157622606261722 / (accessed 23 August 2017)

Nascimento de Melo, T. (2011) Genus Poecilopompilus. Available from: https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 21143143 (accessed 12 March 2019)

Villalobos, Y. (2017) Spider Wasps (Family Pompilidae). Available from: https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 7761830 (accessed 29 March 2018)

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Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae