Figure 3 in First record of the Taiwanese spider wasp Minotocyphus formosanus (Tsuneki) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) as a koinobiont ectoparasitoid of the funnel-web spider Macrothele hungae Lin and Li (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae)

Figure 3. Developmental process of spider wasp Minotocyphus formosanus Tsuneki. (A) Spider Macrothele hungae Lin and Li carrying a wasp larva on the day it was collected (9.30pm on 6 January 2024). (B) Spider constructing a web on 7 January. (C) Wasp larva devouring almost all of spider's abdomen (11.25pm, 7 January). (D) Larva eating posterior portion of spider's cephalothorax (10.16am, 8 January). (E) larva located away from spider (5.41am, 9 January). (F) Larva spinning a cocoon (3.41am, 10 January). (G) Completed cocoon (arrow, meconium excreted by larva at posterior end of cocoon (11 January). (H) Female wasp having emerged from cocoon and lapping diluted honey (20 February). Scale bars: A–E = 5 mm; F–H = 10 mm.