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Auplopus associatus

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  • 2. 6365 Willowpark Way, Sooke, BC, Canada V 9 Z 1 L 9
  • 3. Complexo Biopráticas, Universidade Vila Velha, Vila Velha, State of Espirito Santo, Brazil
  • 4. Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322

Description

Auplopus associatus (Banks)

BRAZIL: São Paulo State, Socorro; 16 December 2021, 1030 EST; P. H. G. Lopes. Host: Unidentified species (Anyphaenidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp straddled the immobilized ghost spider, venter to venter, and grasped its spinnerets with her mandibles while standing on a leaf (Lopes 2021).

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Banks
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Pompilidae
Genus
Auplopus
Species
associatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Auplopus associatus (Banks, 1946) sec. Kurczewski, West, Waichert & Pitts, 2022

References

  • Lopes PHG. 2021. Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Tribe Ageniellini). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 103143579. (Last accessed 29 December 2021).