Arachnospila titicacaensis (Strand)

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 : 25

Arachnospila titicacaensis (Strand)

BOLIVIA: La Paz Department, Ingavi Province, Tiwanaku; 23 January 2023; F. Romano and N. A. Marting Vidarre. Host: Hogna? rufimanoides (Strand) ( Lycosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the wolf spi- der across the ground in an upright position, grasping its ventral coxal area with her mandibles ( Fig. 18 ; Romano and Marting Vidaurre 2023).

PERU: Puno Region, Puno Province; 13 November 2013; S. Littledale. Host: Hogna? rufimanoides (Strand) ( Lycosidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed wolf spider with her antennae as it laid ventral side upward with legs spread laterally on the ground ( Littledale 2022).

These are the first host records and new family, genus, and species for Arachnospila titicacaensis .

Figures

Figures 13–18. Pompilid species with host spiders. 13) Episyron quinquenotatus quinquenotatus (Say) with Araneus gemmoides Chamberlin and Ivie, female. © Linda Mikolayenko. 14) Poecilopompilus costatus oenochrous (Schultz) with Araneus lathyrinus (Holmberg) (Araneidae), adult or subadult female. © Martin Arregui. 15) Tachypompilus vulpes (Dalla Torre) with Polybetes?pythagoricus (Holmberg) (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female. © Paulo Aranã. 16) Anoplius (Notiochares) triquetrus (Fox) with Pavocosa sp. (Lycosidae), adult or subadult male. © Alexandre Ferreira Righi. 17) Xerochares expulsus (Schulz) with Curicaberis minax (O. Pickard-Cambridge) (Sparassidae), penultimate male.© Georgia Born-Schmidt and M. Schmidt.18) Arachnospila titicacaensis (Strand) with Hogna?rufimanoides (Strand) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. © Francesco Romano and Nirvana Angela Marting Vidaurre.