Published December 7, 2020
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Episyron conterminus subsp. posterus
Description
Episyron conterminus posterus (Fox)
CA: Los Angeles County, Longbeach; 18 August 2015; jose_23109. Host: Araneus cf bispinosus (Keyserling) (Araneidae), adult female. The wasp attempted to drag the paralyzed orbweaver, dorsal side upward, on the ground then releasing her grasp with her mandibles (Jose_23109 2015).
MEXICO: Campeche State, Calakmul Municipality, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve; 25 March 2020; J. Phangurha (Phangtastic_beasts). Host: Eriophora ravilla (C. L. Koch) (Tropical orbweaver) (Araneidae), subadult female. Several photos and short videos show the wasp excavating a ground chamber and grasping the paralyzed tropical orbweaver, dorsal side upward, by the left foreleg with her mandibles (Phangurha 2020).
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 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Genus
- Episyron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Fox
- Species
- posterus
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Episyron conterminus subsp. posterus (Fox, 1893) sec. Kurczewski, West, Waichert, Kissane, Ubick & Pitts, 2020
References
- Phangurha, J. (2020) # calakmul # wasp # parasitism. Available from: https: // www. instagram. com / p / B-KqyonAJnr / (accessed 29 March 2020)