New Record of Prey of Cicada Killer Wasp Sphecius convallis Patton (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) and New Record of Distribution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Abstract

The crabronid wasp genus Sphecius contains 21 described species (Pulawski, 2020). Of these, five are recorded in the New World (Bohart, 2000): Sphecius convallis Patton, 1879; S. grandis (Say, 1823); S. hogardii (Latreille, 1809); S. speciosus (Drury, 1773) and S. spectabilis (Tashenberg, 1875). In Mexico, only three species have been registered: S. convallis, S. grandis and S. speciosus (Holliday & Coelho, 2006; Coelho et al., 2011). Sphecius convallis is distributed in eleven states of Mexico (Fig. 1A): Baja California (Krombein, 1979; Ruíz et al., 2002; Coelho et al., 2011; Pulawski, 2020), Baja California Sur (Coelho et al., 2011; Pulawski, 2020), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco, Morelos, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora (Coelho et al., 2011) and Tamaulipas (Horta et al., 2007; Coelho et al., 2011). In this work, we record the first record of S. convallis from the state of Oaxaca (Fig. 1A). It was identified using keys of Holliday & Coelho (2006).