Spider wasp (redirect from Pompilidae)
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species...
24 KB (2,820 words) - 13:31, 15 November 2024
A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp (Pompilidae) that preys on tarantulas. Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis...
10 KB (1,091 words) - 11:34, 18 December 2024
Psorthaspis brimleyi is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. "Psorthaspis brimleyi species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06...
2 KB (125 words) - 17:31, 24 February 2024
Pepsis albocincta is a species of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae. These wasps are also called tarantula hawks, as they usually hunt tarantulas...
2 KB (124 words) - 14:30, 30 October 2024
Thisbe's tarantula-hawk wasp, is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. Females are 32-44 mm long with a dark blue body and orange wings. The...
2 KB (183 words) - 14:40, 4 December 2024
Lepidoptera, though some select beetles, flies, or bugs; the spider wasps (Pompilidae) exclusively attack spiders. Parasitoid wasp species differ in which host...
36 KB (3,535 words) - 23:53, 23 September 2024
'digestion, cooking') is a genus of spider wasps belonging to the family Pompilidae. Species within this genus are also called tarantula hawks, as they usually...
11 KB (746 words) - 00:27, 22 October 2024
Diplonyx is a genus of spider wasps in the family Pompilidae. The following species belongs to this genus: Diplonyx campanulatus (de Saussure, 1892) Loktionov...
1 KB (64 words) - 13:27, 5 March 2024
burrows for its larvae to eat alive. It is the largest member of the family Pompilidae in New Zealand. The holotype of this species was collected by Joseph Dalton...
6 KB (647 words) - 00:34, 15 February 2024
an additional layer for identification, distinguishing it from other Pompilidae members. The "tarantula hawk" namesake comes from its predation of tarantulas...
20 KB (2,568 words) - 16:12, 12 August 2024
Pepsini is a tribe of spider wasps in the family Pompilidae. Abernessia Arlé, 1947 Adirostes Banks, 1946 Aimatocare Roig-Alsina, 1989 Allaporus Banks,...
8 KB (603 words) - 21:10, 9 April 2024
the elegant tarantula hawk, is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae, widely distributed in North America and Central America. It has numerous...
4 KB (166 words) - 19:39, 30 October 2024
The New World tarantula-hawk wasp genus Pepsis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part 2. The P. grossa- to P. deaurata-groups. Zool.Verh. Leiden 338:...
13 KB (1,418 words) - 05:38, 18 February 2024
Cryptocheilus notatus is the largest species of spider wasps (Pompilidae) to be found in Great Britain reaching up to 18 mm in length. Cryptocheilus notatus...
5 KB (326 words) - 09:00, 20 June 2023
Anoplius aethiops is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. It primarily lives in overgrown fields with fine-grained soil. It provisions its...
2 KB (108 words) - 21:57, 29 November 2024
Pompilus is a genus of spider wasps in the family Pompilidae, the members of which prey on spiders. There are seven species recognised in Pompilus sensu...
3 KB (194 words) - 01:33, 14 October 2023
The Pepsinae are a subfamily of the spider wasp family, Pompilidae, including the two genera of large tarantula hawks, as well as many genera of smaller...
11 KB (799 words) - 05:40, 11 March 2024
Spider Wasp". Stephen Cresswell. Retrieved 31 August 2016. "Taxonomy for Pompilidae (Pompilid wasps) in Canada". Insectoid.info. Retrieved 2 September 2016...
10 KB (955 words) - 16:50, 3 July 2024
Priocnemis minorata is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. "Priocnemis minorata species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06...
2 KB (118 words) - 16:49, 24 February 2024
Anoplius is a genus of spider wasps in the family Pompilidae called the blue-black spider wasps. It is one of two genera within the tribe Anopliini of...
22 KB (1,067 words) - 20:37, 2 January 2025
Entypus unifasciatus (category Pompilidae)
Entypus unifasciatus is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. Theses spider wasps are black with a bluish sheen, yellow antennae, and wings...
3 KB (243 words) - 09:58, 11 September 2024
The Ceropalinae are a subfamily of the Pompilidae, the spider wasps, containing two genera, whose members are kleptoparasitic on other solitary wasps which...
960 bytes (77 words) - 04:14, 1 June 2024
The Pompilinae are a subfamily of the spider wasp family, Pompilidae, the species of which lay their eggs on the paralyzed bodies of their prey. Tribal...
16 KB (1,180 words) - 17:24, 31 July 2024
O. (2004). "Venom and the Good Life in Tarantula Hawks (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): How to Eat, Not Be Eaten, and Live Long". Journal of the Kansas Entomological...
6 KB (575 words) - 03:09, 21 March 2024
Evagetes is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae. There are 72 described species, of which 58 are found in the Palaearctic region, 11 in...
7 KB (583 words) - 08:32, 20 May 2024
Evagetes ingenuus is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. "Evagetes ingenuus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05. "Evagetes...
2 KB (118 words) - 02:59, 22 February 2024
Aporus is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae, they specialise in hunting ground dwelling spiders in their burrows for laying eggs on. Species...
2 KB (162 words) - 01:59, 2 July 2024
Retrieved 2012-09-11. Shimizu, A. & Wahis, R. 2009 Systematic studies on the Pompilidae occurring in Japan: Genus Agenioideus Ashmead (Hymenoptera), supplement...
4 KB (364 words) - 22:37, 27 November 2023
(1985). California Spider Wasps of the Subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) Volume 26 of Bulletin of the California Insect Survey. University of...
4 KB (324 words) - 03:36, 26 February 2022
Psorthaspis sanguinea is a species of spider wasp in the family Pompilidae. "Psorthaspis sanguinea species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06...
2 KB (125 words) - 17:32, 24 February 2024