• Blue-black spider wasp / Spider wasp
• Avispa de las arañas
• Avispa de las arañas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hymenoptera
Family:Pompilidae
Genus:Anoplius
Unknown spider wasp species (Anoplius sp.) with paralyzed spider.
The host spider it’s Allocosa senex (Mello-Leitão) – ID’d by Dr. Fernando Perez-Miles and Alvaro Laborda.
Rocha, Uruguay
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