Pompilocalus hirticeps
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
Pompilocalus
Pompilocalus hirticeps

description: Pompilocalus hirticeps (Guèrin)
ARGENTINA: Neuquén Province, Lanin National Park; 18 January 2010; A. Gonzalez. Host:? Phrixotrichus sp., juvenile female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed tarantula by its right forecoxa with her mandibles and dragged it backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward (Gonzalez 2010).
CHILE: Biobío Region, Concepción Province, Concepción, University of Concepción, campus hills; September 2013; B. Crosby. Host: Phrixotrichus cf vulpinus (Karsch) (Chilean ocelot tarantula), adult female. The wasp pursued, stung and immobilized a wandering tarantula. She then examined it with her mouthparts as it laid paralyzed on its left side on dried vegetation on the ground (Crosby 2013).
CHILE: Bío Bío Region, Concepción Province, Nonguén National Reserve; 9 March 2019, G. Andres (gerald_andres). Host: Phrixotrichus cf vulpinus, adult or subadult female. The wasp confronted and faced the reared-back defensive tarantula as they both stood on the ground (Andres 2019).
CHILE: Maule Region, Talca Province, Constitución; 7 June 2019; K. Rojas (aquakenia). Host: Acanthogonatus cf pissii (Simon) (Nemesiidae), adult or subadult female. A short video shows the wasp struggling to drag the paralyzed tube trapdoor spider up a vertical loose dirt embankment, ventral side upward, grasping the middle of its left foreleg with her mandibles (Rojas 2019).
CHILE: O’Higgins Region, Chachopoal Province, near Guacarhue; 21 September 2015; C. Jamonez (kiloster). Host:? Grammostola sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its pedicel with her mandibles (Jamonez 2015).
CHILE: O’Higgins Region, Colchagua Province, Chimbarongo Commune; 21 December 2010; D. Riquelme Cabello. Host:? Euathlus sp., adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her antennae as it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground facing away from the wasp’s burrow entrance. She eventually pulled the spider into her burrow, grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles (Riquelme Cabello 2010).
CHILE: O’Higgins Region, Rengo District, Laguna de los Cristales; 25 September 2017; The Angel (@theanglebulls). Host:? Euathlus sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula through low grasses and over leaf litter on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its left rear coxa with her mandible (The Angel 2017).
CHILE: O’Higgins Region, mountain range, sclerophyllous forest; 15 August 2008; C. X. Pérez. Host: Euathlus cf manicata (Simon), adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards, ventral side upward, grasping its right forecoxa with her mandibles (Pérez 2008).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Maipo Province, Cajón del Maipo; 23 April 2018; C. Ordenes. Host: Euathlus cf condorito Perafán and Pérez-Miles, adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards, upright, grasping its pedicel with her mandibles (Ordenes 2018).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Maipo Province, Cerro Manquehuito; 13 October 2015; C. Sanhueza (cesardubman). Host: Grammostola cf rosea, juvenile. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its pedicel with her mandibles (Sanhueza 2015).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Maipo Province, Paine, Altos de Cantillana; 22 October 2006; C. X. Pérez-Apablaza. Host: Thrixopelma cf pruriens Schmidt (Peruvian green velvet tarantula) (Theraphosidae), juvenile. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her mouthparts and antennae as it laid ventral side upward on the ground (Pérez-Apablaza 2006).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Peñalolén, Quilín Sur 10685; 15 October 2018; P. Galdames (pavlote). Host: Grammostola cf rosea, adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed tarantula backwards along the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its pedicel with her mandibles (Galdames 2018).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Santiago; no date; M. De Las Heras. Host: Grammostola cf rosea, juvenile female. The wasp stung the tarantula and left it paralyzed on the ground, dorsal side upward. She then examined it with her antennae. Grammostola cf rosea is the most common theraphosid species in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile (De Las Heras no date; R. West 2017 pers. comm.).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Santiago, foothills; 1 December 2010; Lycaon.cl. Host: Grammostola cf rosea, juvenile. “Wasp of the genus Pompilocalus dragging a young spider, in the foothills of Santiago, Chile.” (English translation) (Lycaon.cl 2010).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Santiago, Cerro San Cristóbal; 9 November 2009; ks.polk@gmail.com. Host:? Euathlus sp., adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards, ventral side upward, grasping its left hindleg with her mandibles (Polk 2009).
CHILE: Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province, Santiago, Metropolitan Park; 4 December 2016; L. Brina (bolchebike). Host:? Euathlus sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed tarantula backwards on the ground, ventral side upward, grasping its 3 rd left coxa with her mandibles (Brina 2016).
CHILE:? Santiago Metropolitan Region, Santiago Province; 5 October 2014, 1951; F. Araya Bahamóndez. Host: Grammostola cf rosea, juvenile. “Noche de depredadores Chilenosi en @ informetierra Avispa (Pompilocalus sp.) foto.” (Bahamóndez 2014).
CHILE: Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso Province, El Salto, Viña del Mar; 3 March 2016; P. Novoa Quezada. Host:? Acanthogonatus sp., adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tube trapdoor spider with her mouthparts as it laid ventral side upward on the ground (Novoa Quezada 2016).
CHILE: Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso Province, Municipality of Santo Domingo, coastal mountains; 22 October 2016; R. Yañez. Host: Euathlus cf parvulus (Pocock), adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her antennae as it laid on its left side on the ground (Yañez 2016a)
CHILE: Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso Province, Municipality of Santo Domingo, coastal mountains; 25 October 2016; R. Yañez. Host: Euathlus cf parvulus, adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed tarantula with her antennae as it laid on the ground. She then grasped it with her mandibles by its left or right foreleg, dorsal side upward, and pulled it backwards on the ground (Yañez 2016b).
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 34-35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249