Distribution
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Afrotropical and Indo-Australasian
regions. |
Biology |
Females hunt a variety of spiders including
Rain spiders (Palystes), which they paralyze and drag to a
pre-excavated burrow or crack or crevice, where they lay an egg on the spider. On hatching
the larva feeds on the preserved prey item. |
Reference |
Wahis, R. 2000.
Revision des especes afrotropicales, indo-orientales et australiennes du
genre Java Pate 1946 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae, Pepsinae).
Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 38, 43-76. |
Credits
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Photographs
© © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or
© Duncan Butchart.
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