Auplopus auripilus (Cresson)

COSTA RICA: Puntarenas Province, Guapil, Hacienda Barú Lodge; 24 February 2008; S. A. Marshall. Host: Unidentified species ( Anyphaenidae), adult or subadult female. The wasp held the ghost spider on a leaf, venter to venter, with all legs amputated at coxa-trochanter joints, grasping its spinnerets with her mandibles (Fig. 5, S. A. Marshall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2019 pers. comm.) .