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APHILANTHOPS QUADRINOTATUS ASHMEAD, A WASP WHICH CARRIES HER PREY ON HER STING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Charles H. Hicks
Charles H. Hicks
Affiliation:
University of Colorado.
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The Peckhams in “Wasps Social anl Solitary” state that (p. 76) “Ashmead quotes from Fabre the remarkable statement that Oxybelus carries her flies home impaled on her sting, an idea that probably arose from the fact that nearly the whole of the fly is visible.” The species they studied, O. quadrinotatus, carried its flies one at a time, upside down head tightly clasped with its third pair of legs, and all of the abdomen projecting beyond the abdomen of the wasp.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , March 1927 , pp. 51 - 55
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1927

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References

1. —Compared with determined specimen in collection of University of Colorado.

2. —Compared with spcimen determined by Mr. S. A. Rohwer.

3. —Determined by Professor T. D. A. Cockerell.

4. —Peckham, G. W., and E. G., Wasps Social and Solitary. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New York.

5. —Wheeler, W. M., A. Solitary Wasp (Aphilanthops frigidus F. Smith) that Provisions its nest with Queen Ants. Journ. Anim. Behav. 3, pp. 374–387, 1913.