Austrochares aff. mexicanus Dreisbach, 1966

Waichert, Cecilia, Fernandez, Fernando, Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Juanita Rodriguez, & Pitts, James P., 2017, More new records of spider wasps from Colombia (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), ZooKeys 658, pp. 89-95 : 90

Austrochares aff. mexicanus Dreisbach, 1966

Specimen data.

Magdalena. 1♀, PNN Tayrona, Neguanje, [11°20'N, 74°2'W]; 10 m, malaise, 20 Apr-4 May 2001, R. Henríquez, (IAvH-E), 1♂, 4-23 May 2001, R. Henríquez, (IAvH-E).

Comments.

This is the first record of the genus for Colombia and northern South America. Austrochares was previously known from Mexico to Argentina, including Brazil, Chile, and Peru ( Evans 1969). The studied specimen keys out to Austrochares mexicanus in Evans’s (1969) key, but it probably belongs to an undescribed species that will be further studied elsewhere.