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Observations on the nesting behaviour of the spider wasp Eragenia congrua (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), with the first record of the host

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  • 1. Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi. Coordenação de Zoologia, Belém, Brazil;
  • 2. Programa de Pósgraduação em Entomologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Laboratório de Ecologia de Hymenoptera, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, Brazil;
  • 3. Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, USA

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Carvalho-Filho, Fernando da Silva, Auko, Tiago Henrique, Waichert, Cecília (2015): Observations on the nesting behaviour of the spider wasp Eragenia congrua (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), with the first record of the host. Journal of Natural History 49 (33): 2035-2044, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006701

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