TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kurczewski, Frank E.
A1  - Abela, Alice J.
A1  - West, Rick C.
T1  - Nesting behavior, ecology, and functional morphology of the trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp Aporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
T2  - Insecta mundi
N2  - Macrophotographs in series taken by Alice Abela on sandy coastal dunes in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, CA in 2010–2021 supplement and enhance F. X. Williams (1928) study of the ecology and nesting behavior of the trapdoor spider-hunting spider wasp Aporus (Plectraporus) hirsutus (Banks) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Aporini). Abela’s macrophotographs and observations provide new details of adult wasp feeding, functional morphology, hunting, digging and prey transport, and host spider trapdoor, entrance, burrow structure, host capture and escape activity. Newly reported host records from this study and online photographs expand A. hirsutus host selection in the large wafer-lid trapdoor spider genus Aptostichus Simon (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Euctenizidae). The A. hirsutus California geographic distribution map by Wasbauer and Kimsey (1985) is updated, thereby providing a broader definition of intraspecific variation in this species.
T3  - Insecta Mundi - 902 
KW  - adult feeding
KW  - functional morphology
KW  - hunting
KW  - digging
KW  - prey transport
KW  - Aptostichus
KW  - rapdoor
KW  - spider burrow
KW  - host capture
KW  - escape activity
KW  - geographic distribution
KW  - intraspecific variation
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64390
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-643907
UR  - https://centerforsystematicentomology.org/insectamundi/0902_Kurczewski_etal_2021.pdf
SN  - 1942-1354
SN  - 0749-6737
VL  - 2021
IS  - article 902
SP  - 1
EP  - 23
PB  - Flora & Fauna Publ.
CY  - Gainesville, Fla.
ER  -