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)
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires; 3 February 2012; jjuyk. Host: Unidentified species (Sparassidae), subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards, dorsal side upward, up a vertical wall, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Jjuyk 2012).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Botanical Gardens; 23 January 2010; E. Pascual. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed huntsman spider, dorsal side upward, by its right pedipalp with her mandibles and pulled it backwards up a vertical surface (Pascual 2010).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Belgrano; 24 December 2007; P. Sonder. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp grasped the paralyzed huntsman spider, dorsal side upward, by its right pedipalp with her mandibles and pulled it backwards up a vertical concrete wall (Sonder 2007).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Mar del Plata; 29 December 2018; M. Cagnoli (marielacagnoli). Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider on the ground through low vegetation and up a vertical plaster wall, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Cagnoli 2018).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, 20 km SE of Olavarria; 2 January 2010; R. Ruiz. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards up a vertical brick wall, holding it dorsal side upward and grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles (Ruiz 2010).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, 4 km N of San Clemente del Tuyú; 26 December 2014; J. F. Romero. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards on the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Romero 2014).
ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires Province, Tandil; 14 December 2008; A. Waniya. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed huntsman spider as it laid dorsal side upward atop a large rock with legs spread outward (Waniya 2008).
ARGENTINA: Córdoba Province, Capilla del Monte, Los Paredones; 26 January 2017; L. Rubio. Host: Polybetes cf rapidus, adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the much heavier huntsman spider backwards, dorsal side upward, grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles (Rubio 2017a).
ARGENTINA: Córdoba Province, Las Varillas; 1 December 2018; H. D. Caverzasi (tapi45). Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the paralyzed huntsman spider along the ground, dorsal side upward, grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles (Caverzasi 2018).
ARGENTINA: Mendoza Province, La Consulta; 27 February 2018; J. A. Portela. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult or subadult female. The wasp dragged the huntsman spider backwards through low grass, dorsal side upward, grasping its right pedipalp with her mandibles (Portela 2018).
ARGENTINA: Neuquén Province, Pichilemu; 30 December 2014; M. Belgrano. Host: Polybetes pythagoricus, adult or subadult female. The wasp examined the paralyzed huntsman spider with her antennae as it laid dorsal side upward on the ground (Belgrano 2014).
BRAZIL: State of S„o Paulo, Rio Claro, Horto Florestal Edmundo Navarro de Andrade; 14 December 1977; C. A. T. DeLucca. Host: Polybetes sp., female. The wasp with host spider were collected and deposited in the S„o Paulo State University (UNESP) entomological collection (V. Ghirotto, UNESP, S„o Paulo, Brazil, 2018 pers. comm.).
URUGUAY: Montevideo; 26 February 2012; E. Fernández Casella. Host: Polybetes sp., adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider backwards, dorsal side upward, up a vertical surface, grasping its pedipalp or chelicera with her mandibles (Fernández Casella 2012).
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 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4891.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4309249