Natural History and Behavior of a Japanese Parasocial Spider Wasp, Machaerothrix tsushimensis (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

摘要: Abstract Machaerothrix tsushimensis Yasumatsu exhibits several previously undescribed characteristics in its behavior. The nest is composed of barrel-shaped cells and an outer covering. Before hunting females recondition old for reuse, by scraping dried mud from the surface with their mandibles, adding water, working it into a soft ball, which then daubed dorsal tip gaster. They capture salticid spiders store them clay nests. female amputates part or all spider's legs walks forward, straddling spider, holding venter up spinnerets. Several live together on same some period. are usually tolerant one another, though dominance interactions found among them. dominant full sequence nesting behavior, including cell provisioning, but subordinate tends to spend much time resting nest. There evidence that subordinates initiate activities nest...