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Clubiona terrestris with parasitic wasp larva

by Tone Killick

A spiders greatest foe is the parasitic wasp. This album shows the brutal but natural process between predator and prey. The larva is a Schizopyga sp (Polysphincta group of genera). There is more than one Schizopyga that it could be, and the position (on the back of cephalothorax) is characteristic of the genus.... the spider normally makes a retreat before it dies.

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16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larva
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 01 03 16 6
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 01 03 16 7
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 01 03 16 9
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 03 16 8
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 10 03 16 1
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 10 03 16 2
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 10 03 16 3
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 10 03 16 4
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 10 03 16 5
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 14 03 16 1
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 14 03 16 2
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 14 03 16 3
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 15 03 16 1
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 15 03 16 2
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 26 03 16 2
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 26 03 16 3
16 02 16 Adult male Clubiona sp. with wasp larvae 26 03 16 4