Entypus unifasciatus
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| Entypus unifasciatus | |
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| Entypus unifasciatus unifasciatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Genus: | Entypus |
| Species: | E. unifasciatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Entypus unifasciatus (Say, 1828) | |
Entypus unifasciatus is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae.[1]
Theses spider wasps are black with a bluish sheen, yellow antennae, and wings ranging from mostly orange to mostly black with an orange band near the apex.[1]
Range
Entypus unifasciatus occurs from transcontinental North America, except in the northwest, to South America.[1]
Ecology
Female wasps paralyze large spiders and deposit them in burrows. The wasp lays a fertilized egg upon the spider; after hatching, the larva feeds on the living but paralyzed spider until maturing into a pupa that overwinters, and emerges as a winged adult next summer.[2]
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