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Catalog #:
57264451
Taxon:
Chalcoela iphitalis (Walker)
Family: Crambidae
Family: Crambidae
Determiner: Russell Pfau (2020-08-22T21:08:50Z)
Collector:
Russell Pfau
Date: 2020-08-20
Verbatim Date: 2020/08/20 5:40 PM CDT
Locality:
United States, Texas
32.164835 -98.2861780556
Occurrence Remarks:
Things I found inside this abandoned paper was nest. Nest placed in jar and a few days later this moth was in the jar also. "The larvae are parasitoids, feeding on the larvae of paper wasps" Wasp-eating moth fills rare niche: http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2017/02/wasp-eating-moth-fills-rare-niche.html Observation set: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Similar%20observation%20set=paper-wasp-nest%20(RSP)
Establishment Means:
wild
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Record
Id: a1e5369b-af9f-4564-90ea-c4b86d086773
Occurrence ID (GUID):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/57264451
For additional information on this occurrence, please contact:
Ken-ichi Ueda (kueda@inaturalist.org)
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