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Pompilidae

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Pompilidae

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Also known as spider wasp

family of insects

OverviewAI-generated

Pompilidae is a family of insects within the order Hymenoptera, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda, and kingdom Animalia. It belongs to the superfamily Pompiloidea and was described by Latreille in 1805. The taxon is accepted in the World Register of Marine Species. Common names for this group include Spider Wasps, spinnendoders, and veivepser.

Records for Pompilidae are held by institutions such as MHNCA and LACM, with occurrences documented in Mexico and the United States. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility lists 337,686 occurrences for this family, while iDigBio contains 17,673 records and 6,783 media items. The taxon is referenced by 357 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, GBIF, Gbif Occ, WoRMS, iDigBio, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderHymenoptera
  5. FamilyPompilidae
Observations recorded337,686

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
17,673
With media
6,783
Family
Pompilidae
Collections
MHNCA, LACM
Recorded in
Mexico, United States

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Encyclopedic overview

Pompilidae is a family of wasps commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-nesting Ageniellini), and most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are kleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders.

In South America, species may be referred to colloquially as marabunta or marimbondo, though these names can be generally applied to any very large stinging wasps. Furthermore, in some parts of Venezuela and Colombia, it is called matacaballos, or "horse killers", while in Brazil some particular bigger and brighter species of the general marimbondo kind might be called fecha-goela/cerra-goela, or "throat locker".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pompilidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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