Description of the nest of the pollen wasp Celonites jousseaumei Du Buysson, 1906 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Masarinae) with a new host association of the cuckoo wasp Spintharina innesi (Du Buysson, 1894) (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

Two nests of Celonites jousseaumei are described in detail from the Antiatlas in Morocco. The nests con-sisted of two or three linearly arranged earthen brood cells that were attached to the almost vertical surface of medium sized stones. The brood cell provisions consisted exclusively of Heliotropium pollen (Boraginaceae). Species affiliation of developmental stages by DNA barcoding revealed that one of the brood cells contained a pupa of Spintharina innesi in a cocoon.

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Two nests of Celonites jousseaumei in the Antiatlas in Morocco are described, with one of the brood cells containing a pupa of Spintharina innesi in a cocoon.