Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus Evans, 1966

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 : 22

Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus Evans

COLOMBIA: Nariño Department, Samaniego ; 23 September 2023. 11:22 PM ?; N. Jimenez. Host: Unidentified Sparassidae [det. G. B. Edwards], adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized huntsman spider by the end of its left pedipalp with her mandibles, and maintaining it dorsal side upward, pulled it up a stucco wall ( Jimenez 2023).

Sparassidae is a rarely captured host family for Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b).

MEXICO, Jalisco State, Tolimán; 5 August 2023, 1343 CDT; A. Bastian. Host: Loxosceles? colima Gertsch ( Sicariidae ), adult male. The wasp grasped the immobilized recluse spider by its right fore trochanter with her mandibles and pulled it backwards up a vertical stucco wall ( Bastian 2023).

Loxosceles? colima ( Sicariidae ) is a new host family, genus, and species for the spider wasp genus Tachypompilus ( Kurczewski et al. 2020, 2022b). Furthermore, Sicariidae is a first-time host spider family for the family Pompilidae .