Ageniellini

Phylogeny of Ageniellini

Our current analyses based on a data set of UCEs suggest that Ageniellini are monophyletic ( Figure 1 View Figure 1 are behavioural characters supporting the monophyly, which concern prey-carrying behaviour: species of this group whose biology is known transport their prey spiders forwards, straddling the

Yoshimoto 1962; Kurczewski and Spofford 1986; Kurczewski and Edwards 2012; Kurczewski et al Eopompilus ( Nambu and Shimizu 1994; Takahashi and Morikawa 2019; Yamauchi et al. 2022),

( Evans and Yoshimoto 1962; Kurczewski 2010; Kurczewski and Kiernan 2015; Kurczewski et al. Pepsinae), and Pompilus ( Olberg 1959; Day 1981) ( Pompilinae ). (cf. Harris (1999, p. 206), who stated New Zealand Pepsinae run forwards when transporting very small spiders.) Furthermore, the members Ageniellini usually amputate some or all of the legs of their prey spider at the coxa-trochanter joint stinging. Kurczewski and Kiernan (2015) showed that the spider’s leg amputation had been only observed in the other groups of Pompilidae . The combination of the forward prey transportation and leg amputation occurs uniquely to Ageniellini .