Sobczak Jober Fernando, Villanueva-Bonilla German Antonio, PÁdua Diego galvÃo de, Messas Yuri Fanchini
Instituto de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afrobrasileira - Unilab, Rod. 060, Acarape, CE, Brazil..
Zootaxa. 2017 Dec 20;4365(5):594-599. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.5.7.
Parasitoid organisms can manipulate the morphology, physiology and/or behavior of their hosts to increase their own survival (Moore 2002; Korenko et al. 2015a). Wasps of the Polysphincta genus-group sensu Gauld Dubois, 2006 (hereafter polysphinctine wasps) are well known to act exclusively as koinobiont ectoparasitoids of spiders (Gauld Dubois 2006). The host range of these wasps is remarkably narrow and often species-specific; individuals of some polysphinctine genera (e.g. Hymenoepimecis, Acrotaphus) usually attack orb-weaver spiders (Pádua et al. 2016), whereas other are specialized on spiders that construct three-dimensional webs. Fritzén (2014), for example, discussed that Oxyrrhexis Föerster, 1869, Zatypota Föerster, 1869 and Flacopimpla Gauld, 1991 are specialized on theridiid hosts, the last two mainly or exclusively on spiders of the subfamily Theridiinae.
寄生生物可以操纵其宿主的形态、生理和/或行为,以提高自身的生存几率(Moore,2002年;Korenko等人,2015年a)。2006年,Gauld和Dubois将Polysphincta属类群的黄蜂(以下简称多节黄蜂)定义为众所周知的专性类寄生外寄生蜘蛛(Gauld和Dubois,2006年)。这些黄蜂的宿主范围非常狭窄,而且通常具有物种特异性;一些多节黄蜂属(如Hymenoepimecis、Acrotaphus)的个体通常攻击圆网蛛(Pádua等人,2016年),而其他黄蜂则专门寄生在构建三维网的蜘蛛上。例如,Fritzén(2014年)讨论了,1869年命名的Oxyrrhexis Föerster、1869年命名的Zatypota Föerster和1991年命名的Flacopimpla Gauld专门寄生球腹蛛宿主,后两者主要或专门寄生球腹蛛亚科的蜘蛛。