Hemipepsis mexicana (Cresson) or H. toussainti (Banks)

COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Province, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve; 2 October 2016; R. Hosig (wildlifeotography). Host: Unidentified species ( Ctenidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wandering spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of a hindleg with her mandibles (Hosig 2016).