Tachypompilus ferrugineus bicolor (Banks)

Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6533498

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6533632

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFE4-FF8D-FF71-FC11FC3C53A5

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tachypompilus ferrugineus bicolor (Banks)
status

 

Tachypompilus ferrugineus bicolor (Banks) View in CoL

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Independencia Province, Duvergé, Vila Barrancoli; 7 July 2018, 1521 PDT; B. A. Roy. Host: Heteropoda venatoria Linnaeus (Sparassidae) , juvenile [det. A. Tosto and R. C. West]. The wasp is grasping the immobilized huntsman spider midway on its right pedipalp with her mandibles, while pulling it backwards, dorsal side upward, vertically up a debarked upright post with a natural cavity part way up. Two other photographs show the spider positioned inside of the cavity, apart from the wasp. It is unknown whether the wasp placed the spider in the cavity in order to rest, after the strenuous prey transport, or whether she put it there in order to lay an egg on its abdomen and conceal it with debris ( Roy 2021).

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Tachypompilus

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