Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say)

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 : 17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10793331

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FA37986C-FF91-F75F-FF14-05B69910FC46

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Felipe

scientific name

Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say)
status

 

Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say) View in CoL

CANADA: Saskatchewan Province, Division No. 18; 10 June 2023; 1525 CST; L. Mikolayenko. Host: Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin and Ivie ( Araneidae ), adult female. The wasp grasped two long thin leaves with its tarsi, above ground level, while holding the immobilized orb-weaver, dorsal side upward, by the base of its left forecoxa with her mandibles ( Fig. 13 View Figures 13–18 ; Mikolayenko 2023).

Araneus gemmoides View in CoL is a new host species for this common spider wasp species. Host records for Episyron quinquenotatus View in CoL are for various genera and species of Araneidae View in CoL ( Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Kurczewski 2001; Kurczewski and Kiernan 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Pompilidae

Genus

Episyron

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