Entypus unifasciatus subsp. californicus
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- 3. Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade de Brasília Brasília, DF, 70910 - 900, Brazil
Description
MEXICO: Baja California Sur State, La Paz; 17 September 2022, 0925 MDT; C. Lim. Host: Olios giganteus Keyserling (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female. A series of photographs shows the wasp (1) atop the dorsal side upward giant crab spider in a stinging posture; (2) examining the immobilized spider with her antennae as it lies, dorsal side upward, on the ground surface; and (3) dragging the spider, dorsal side upward, backwards across the ground, grasping its right chelicera with her mandibles (Lim 2022).
This is only the second record of an Entypus unifasciatus californicus - Olios giganteus host association from the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Sparassidae is a rare host family (3.1%) for Entypus unifasciatus (Kurczewski et al. 2022a).
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.10793331 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/060EE014FF83F74DFFD407519B31FFB1 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/853E1294-B73D-43B8-8D82-AFD2E0B00352 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Townes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Entypus
- Species
- californicus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Entypus unifasciatus subsp. californicus (Townes, 1957) sec. Kurczewski, West & Waichert, 2024
References
- Lim C. 2022. New World Tarantula-hawk Wasps (Genus Pepsis). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 135628680. (Last accessed 19 September 2022.)
- Kurczewski FE, Stoll JW, West RC, Kissane KC, Chesshire PR, Cobb NS. 2022 a. Geographic variation in host selection in the spider wasps Entypus unifasciatus (Say) and Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), II. Insecta Mundi 0925: 1 - 73.