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Hemipepsis mexicana
Description
Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson)
COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Province, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve; 11 January 2011; E. García-Padilla. Host: Cupiennius salei (Keyserling) (Tiger wandering spider) (Trechaleidae), adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp pulling the paralyzed banana spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (E. García-Padilla, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2020 pers. comm.; F. E. Kurczewski, 2020 pers. obs.).
Notes
Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia, Kissane, Kelly C., Ubick, Darrell & Pitts, James P., 2020, New and unusual host records for North American and South American spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-112 in Zootaxa 4891 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Hemipepsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cresson
- Species
- mexicana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson, 1867) sec. Kurczewski, West, Waichert, Kissane, Ubick & Pitts, 2020
References
- Kurczewski, F. E., West, R. C., Stoll, J. W., Kissane, K. C. & Cobb, N. S. (2020) Geographic variation in host selection in the spider wasps Entypus unifasciatus and Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). [in preparation]