Entypus aratus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Kissane, Kelly C.
name: Ubick, Darrell
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Entypus
Entypus aratus

description: Entypus aratus (Townes)
AZ: Maricopa County, east of Phoenix; posted 14 November 2015; mindless_t. Host: Unidentified species (Lycosidae), sex unknown. The wasp immobilized a wolf spider by stinging it in the underside of its cephalothorax (Mindless_t 2015).
CA: San Bernardino County, Mojave National Preserve; 14 May 2011; W. St. John. Host: Hogna sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicerae with her mandibles (St. John 2011).
CA: Tulare County, Yokohl Valley; posted 17 July 2017; G. Biddy. Host: Hogna cf antelucana (Montgomery) (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider through short grass on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Biddy 2017).
CO: El Paso County, Cheyenne Mountains State Park; 27 October 2017; D. Mount. Host: Hogna carolinensi s, adult female. The wasp examined the wolf spider after paralyzing it and, then, pulled it backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right chelicera (Mount 2017).
CO: La Plata County, Durango; 16 August 2019; A. and G. Longfellow. Host: Hogna cf carolinensis, adult or subadult female. The wasp stood by the paralyzed wolf spider as it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward, examining it with her antennae (Longfellow 2019).
KS: Gove County, Gove City; posted 2 August 2014; J. Wylie. Host: Hogna cf carolinensis, adult female. The wasp straddled the wolf spider on the ground, dorsal side upward, and stung it in its left side before it was disturbed and flew off (Wylie 2014).
NM: Chaves County, Dexter; posted 18 August 2017; M. E. Funnell (m_e_funnell_). Host: Hogna cf carolinensis, adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wolf spider along the ground and through short grass, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicera with her mandibles (Funnell 2017).
NM: Chaves County, Roswell; 5 August 2017; C. Powell. Host: Hogna sp., adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicerae with her mandibles (Powell 2017).
NM: Otero County, White Sands National Monument; 27 July 2018; B. E. Reynolds. Host: Hogna cf carolinensis, adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of a chelicera with her mandibles (Reynolds 2018).
NM: Roosevelt County, 10 km S of Floyd; 28 July 2018, 1506 (MST); L. Reichert and D. Pollock (tea_fly). Host: Hogna carolinensis, adult female. The wasp stood near a paralyzed wolf spider as it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward, then dragged it backward, dorsal side upward, grasping its left chelicera with her mandibles (Reichert and Pollock 2018).
NM: Roosevelt County, 3.2 km S of Portales; 3 August 2016; J. Lofton. Host: Hogna carolinensis, adult female. The wasp grasped the left pedipalp of the paralyzed wolf spider and pulled it backwards, dorsal side upward, on the ground (Lofton 2016).
TX: Dawson County, 20 km E of Lamesa; 11 October 2018; R. White (rowdius). Host: Hogna cf coloradensis (Banks), adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed wolf spider backwards along the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of a foreleg with her mandibles (White 2018).
TX: Martin County, Liano Estacado, near Stanton; 12 August 2016, 0920 (CDT); M. Waggoner. Host: Tigrosa sp. (Lycosidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp was 1.1 times longer than the spider in body length. She dragged the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, through dense grass, grasping the base of its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Waggoner 2016).
UT: Davis County, Bountiful; 23 August 2019; J. Simpson (take.the.shotz). Host:? Hogna sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wolf spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its chelicera with her mandibles (Simpson 2019).
MEXICO: Chihuahua State, Julimes (Chihuahuan desert); 16 May 2016; A. Y. Rodriguez. Host: Syspira sp. (Miturgidae) (Prowling spiders), adult female. The wasp dragged the prowling spider backwards along the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right chelicera with her mandibles (Rodriguez 2016).
MEXICO: Mexico State, Mexico City; 17 July 2019; M. Corona (maukka_schatz). Host: Zorocrates cf fuscus Simon (Zoropsidae) (False wolf spider), penultimate male. A series of photographs shows the wasp dragging the immobilized false wolf spider backwards over small rocks and low vegetation, ventral side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (Corona 2019).
MEXICO: Mexico State, Mexico City, Zona Sin Asignación De Nombre de Colonia 7, Calle Tenayuca; 1 November 2017; L. G. Hernandez. Host: Hogna sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed spider backwards on the ground, ventral side upward, then dragging it on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of a foreleg with her mandibles (Hernández 2017).
MEXICO: Mexico State, Tlaxcala, Santa Cruz; 11 October 2019; (badfame). Host:? Zorocrates sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed false wolf spider backwards on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its chelicera region with her mandibles (Badfame 2019).
MEXICO: Sonora State, Bácum, Instituto Tecnologico Del Valle Del Yaqui; 23 August 2016; M. Gastelum (biologandoconmiguel). Host: Hogna sp., adult female. The wasp stung and paralyzed a large wolf spider, then stood several centimeters away as it laid immobilized on the ground, dorsal side upward (Gastelum 2016).
description: 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 pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249