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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies (Pompiloidea) » Spider Wasps (Pompilidae) » Pompilinae » Pompilini » Episyron » Episyron biguttatus
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Spider Wasp - Episyron biguttatus - female
Copyright © 2009 Sasha Azevedo

Spider Wasp - Episyron biguttatus - Female
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
August 26, 2009
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Contributed by Sasha Azevedo on 26 August, 2009 - 1:22pm
Last updated 19 February, 2021 - 11:09am

Moved
Moved from Spider Wasps.
… Nick Fensler, 9 October, 2009 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 26 September, 2009 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

Re:
Thank you!
… Sasha Azevedo, 26 August, 2009 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

Nice image
Good riddance to that evil looking spider. Let it become food to make more spider killers.
… Harry Zirlin, 26 August, 2009 - 3:53pm login or register to post comments

i think wasp is Family Pompilidae - Spider Wasp
Wow, that Orbweaver is quite a haul for your wasp. Somebody else can probably take the ID's further. BTW, the wasp is most likely going to place the spider in a burrow/nest for its larva to feed on.
… Andrew Williams, 26 August, 2009 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Spider wasp
Yes, this is most likely a female Episyron biguttatus, one of the few pompilids that uses orb weavers as food for its offspring. Nice shot!
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 August, 2009 - 1:51pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree...
this is Episyron biguttatus.
… Nick Fensler, 9 October, 2009 - 1:37pm login or register to post comments

 
The spider prey is Eriophora
The spider prey is Eriophora ravilla, unusual outside of the Gulf Coast states, according to Levi (1970). Independently of each other, G. B. Edwards and I identified the spider prey as this species.
… Lyn Atherton, 3 October, 2011 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

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