Tachypompilus spp.

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 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFE7-FF8E-FF71-F9B3FE125044
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tachypompilus spp.
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Tachypompilus spp.

BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul State, Esmeralda ; 5 November 2021; E. Gasperin. Host; Lycosa sp. , adult or subadult female. The wasp stood atop the immobilized wolf spider, head above abdomen, after stinging it. The wolf spider laid motionless in a ventral side upward position with legs spread outward ( Gasperin 2021).

BRAZIL: São Paulo State, São Paulo, Serra da Cantareira; 31 January 2021; S. Rangel. Host: Selenops sp. (Selenopidae) [det. S. C. Crews, R. C. West], adult or subadult female. The wasp carried the paralyzed wall crab spider down an exterior wooden manmade structure, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles ( Rangel 2021).