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Issue: Vol. 4247 No. 1: 24 Mar. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.11
Page range: 78–82
Abstract views: 106
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Parasitism of Zatypota riverai Gauld (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) on Anelosimus baeza Agnarsson (Araneae: Theridiidae) in northeast Brazil, with a description of the male

Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira - UNILAB, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Brazil.
Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae Pimplinae

Abstract

Ichneumonid wasps of the Polysphincta genus-group (Polysphinctini sensu Townes hereafter “polysphinctine wasps”) are exclusively koinobiont ectoparasitoids of spiders (Fitton et al. 1987; Gauld 2006). Since the first report of a spider’s behavior being manipulated by a polysphinctine wasp (Eberhard 2000), several studies have since focused on unravelling the mechanisms and evolution of this association (e.g. Gonzaga & Sobczak 2007; Matsumoto 2009; Sobczak et al. 2009; Eberhard 2010; Gonzaga & Sobczak 2011; Korenko & Pekár 2011; Korenko et al. 2013; Sobczak et al. 2014; Takasuka et al. 2015).

 

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