spider wasp

Thanks, Machi. I have pretty well exhausted all my 'pompilid with host spider' searches on Project Noah. My colleagues and I have a good number of records in our research paper, however, as you might appreciate, many pompilid species cannot be identified to species level without the examination of diagnostic features not seen in photographs. For every ten events (such as the above) that we view, possibly we can ID and record one or two. That said, the paper has grown to 165 pages and 82 pompilid species with host records … thanks to sites like Project Noah.
for TamaraMiranda's great photographs, we know the wasp … we now hope to confirm the spider host hopefully through higher resolution images.

Rick, one good thing to try would also be to click the Organisms tab and search for some species or key words and then filter by most recent, location, etc. so you can find more on the site. :)

Hello. Great photographs. The wasp is Anoplius (Notiochares) inaurata (Smith) in the tribe Pompilini, subfamily Pompilinae, family Pompilidae.
I am a biologist studying and recording these predations and would be grateful if you could email me these two photographs (or others) in higher resolution so I might determine the spider family/genus/species in the images. Thank you, Rick West <rickcwest@shaw.ca>