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The First Data on the Bionomics of the Solitary Wasp Euodynerus fastidiosus (De Saussure) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Eumeninae)

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Bionomics of Euodynerus fastidiosus (de Saussure) was studied in Crimea. One nest located in an old burrow of Cicadatra querula (Pallas) and 13 nests located in the cells of old nests of Sceliphron spp. were examined. The nests contained 1–4 cells separated by partitions made of soil mastic which the wasps prepared by mixing dry earth with water. The lateral cell walls were also covered with soil mastic in some nests. Female wasps hunted the larvae of moths and skippers of the families Pyralidae, Crambidae, and Hesperiidae; 2–11 larvae were stored in each cell. Adult feeding was recorded on flowers of Apocynaceae and Plumbaginaceae. Euodynerus fastidiosus is a bivoltine species with hibernation at the prepupal stage. Fights between nesting females, considerably slowing down the nest construction, were recorded. The parasitic wasp Melittobia acasta Walker and the cuckoo wasp Chrysis sexdentata Christ were found in the nests. The reproductive success was 38%. The role of nest tenantry, i.e., settling in nests of other wasps and bees, in the evolution of the nest building behavior in the genus Euodynerus is discussed.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to Yu.I. Budashkin and V.V. Savchuk (Feodosiya) for identification of the lepidopteran larvae, and to E.V. Martynova (Kyiv) for checking the identification of the cuckoo wasp.

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This work was carried out within the framework of State research assignment AAAA-A19-119012490044-3. The field work of 2017–2018 was partly supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 17-04-00259).

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Fateryga, A.V. The First Data on the Bionomics of the Solitary Wasp Euodynerus fastidiosus (De Saussure) (Hymenoptera, Vespidae: Eumeninae). Entmol. Rev. 100, 179–190 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820020062

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