Tachypompilus erubescens
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
Tachypompilus
Tachypompilus erubescens

description: Tachypompilus erubescens (Taschenberg) or Tachypompilus xanthopterus (Rohwer)
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Carlos Thays Botanical Garden; October 2014; M. M. Chimento. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards, ventral side upward, up a vertical surface, grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles (Chimento 2014).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Costanera Sur ecological Reserve; 22 April 2019; L. Zapata (lorenazapata). Host: Polybetes rapidus, adult or subadult female. The wasp stood near and examined the paralyzed huntsman spider with her antennae and it laid, dorsal side upward, on the ground (Zapata 2019).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, La Plata, Paseo del Bosque; 3 February 2018; G. A. Herrera. Host: Polybetes cf rapidus, adult or subadult male. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards up a wall, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its chelicera with her mandibles (Herrera 2018).
ARGENTINA: La Pampa Province, vicinity of Santa Rosa; 1 January 2014; M. D. Bianco. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping the base of its left pedipalp (Bianco 2014).
ARGENTINA: Misiones Province, 20 km before Moconá Falls, Tekorendá Reserve; 7 December 2009; R. Moyano. Host: Selenops sp. (Selenopidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed wall crab spider backwards on the ground and into a wall crevice, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Moyano 2009).
ARGENTINA: Santa Fe Province, San Cristóbal Department, Santurce; 1 June 2018; P. Capovilla. Host: Polybetes cf rapidus, adult or subadult female. The wasp held the paralyzed huntsman spider upright on the ground, grasping a chelicera with her mandibles (Capovilla 2018).
BRAZIL: State of Goiás, Cidade de Goiás, Serra Dourada; 18 September 2015; R. Sartin. Host: Unidentified species (Sparassidae), adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Sartin 2015).
BRAZIL: State of Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu; 25 April 2006; Daniela M. Host Heteropoda cf venatoria, adult ot subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider up and along a window frame, dorsal side upward, grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles (Daniela M. 2006).
URUGUAY: Canelones Department, Ciudad de la Costa; 25 February 2017; J. Rivas (jorgerivas23). Host: Polybetes cf rapidus, adult or subadult female. The wasp stood near the paralyzed huntsman spider as it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward (Rivas 2017).
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 page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249