New Record of Prey of Cicada Killer Wasp Sphecius convallis Patton (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) and New Record of Distribution in Oaxaca, Mexico

The crabronid wasp genus Sphecius contains 21 described species (Pulawski, 2020). Of these, five are recorded in the New World (Bohart, 2000): Sphecius convallis Patton, 1879; S. grandis (Say, 1823); S. hogardii (Latreille, 1809); S. speciosus (Drury, 1773) and S. spectabilis (Tashenberg, 1875). In Mexico, only three species have been registered: S. convallis, S. grandis and S. speciosus (Holliday & Coelho, 2006; Coelho et al., 2011). Sphecius convallis is distributed in eleven states of Mexico (Fig. 1A): Baja California (Krombein, 1979; Ruíz et al., 2002; Coelho et al., 2011; Pulawski, 2020), Baja California Sur (Coelho et al., 2011; Pulawski, 2020), Chihuahua, Coahuila, Jalisco, Morelos, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora (Coelho et al., 2011) and Tamaulipas (Horta et al., 2007; Coelho et al., 2011). In this work, we record the first record of S. convallis from the state of Oaxaca (Fig. 1A). It was identified using keys of Holliday & Coelho (2006).