Auplopus viridis (Smith)

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), Insecta Mundi 2022 (928), pp. 1-32 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6533498
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:48EC3DE6-45D1-40E2-8C4D-2D8788058CAC
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6533568
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scientific name	Auplopus viridis (Smith)
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COLOMBIA: Valle de Cauca Department, Santiago de Cali; 16 January 2021; V. Vieda. Host: Unidentified species ( Anyphaenidae ), adult or subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized ghost spider’s spinnerets with her mandibles while straddling it venter to venter. The left hindleg and right hind-, third and second legs were amputated at the coxa-trochanter joints ( Vieda 2021). The description of A. viridis reported from Colombia by Banks (1946) and represented in our host record may not be the same A. viridis ( Smith, 1864) originally described from São Paulo, Brazil, as discussed by Banks (1946). (Waichert 2021 pers. obs.).

References

Banks N. 1946. Studies of South American Psammocharidae. Part I. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 96: 311 - 525.

Smith F. 1864. Descriptions of new species of Brazilian Pompilidae. Journal of Entomology 2: 263 - 270.

Vieda V. 2021. Mud-nesting Spider Wasps (Tribe Ageniellini). Available at https: // www. inaturalist. org / observations / 68163274. (Last accessed 19 January 2021).