A new host record for the cleptoparasite Irenangelus lucidus (Evans, 1969) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Léo C. da Rocha-Filho; Solange C. Augusto

doi:10.37486/2675-1305.ec03016

Authors

Léo C. da Rocha-Filho Instituto de Biologia - INBIO, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU, Uberlândia, MG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3431-6009
Solange C. Augusto Instituto de Biologia - INBIO, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU, Uberlândia, MG https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2560-4516

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37486/2675-1305.ec03016

Keywords:

Auplopus militaris, Ceropalinae, Gallery forest, trap-nest

Abstract

We provide a new host record for the cleptoparasitic wasp Irenangelus lucidus (Evans, 1969) (Pompilidae: Ceropalinae). A single female emerged from a brood cell of the host species Auplopus militaris (Lynch-Arribalzaga, 1873) (Pompilidae: Pepsinae) reared from a bamboo cane trap nest set at the edge of a gallery forest fragment located in Minas Gerais State, Central Brazil. This is the third host record of an Irenangelus species for the Neotropical region.

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