Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson)

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 : 10

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.6533550

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87D0-FFFE-FF97-FF71-FCACFBF854CA

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson)
status

 

Epipompilus aztecus (Cresson) View in CoL

MEXICO: México State, Ixtapan de la Sal; 20 November 2020; A. Gómez Benítez. Host: Ariadna pilifera O. P.-Cambridge ( Segestriidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the immobilized tube-dwelling spider backwards, dorsal side upward, across the ground for 60 cm, grasping its loose posterior abdominal cuticle with her mandibles ( Fig. 1 View Figures 1–8 ; Gómez Benítez 2020; Gómez Benítez 2020 pers. comm.).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Epipompilus

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