Auplopus viridis (Smith)

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 : 11

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.6533568
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFF9-FF90-FF71-FDB9FB795465
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Auplopus viridis (Smith)
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Auplopus viridis (Smith) View in CoL

COLOMBIA: Valle de Cauca Department, Santiago de Cali; 16 January 2021; V. Vieda. Host: Unidentified species ( Anyphaenidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized ghost spider’s spinnerets with her mandibles while straddling it venter to venter. The left hindleg and right hind-, third and second legs were amputated at the coxa-trochanter joints ( Vieda 2021). The description of A. viridis reported from Colombia by Banks (1946) and represented in our host record may not be the same A. viridis ( Smith, 1864) originally described from São Paulo, Brazil, as discussed by Banks (1946). (Waichert 2021 pers. obs.).