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23 wrz 2015 · The diverse family Pompilidae is a well-supported monophyletic group of aculeate wasps. With the application of molecular data to the problem of Pompilidae phylogenetics, many internal lineages are well supported as monophyletic, yet certain relationships remain somewhat ambiguous.
20 wrz 2024 · Family Pompilidae - Spider Wasps. Typically dark colored with smoky or yellowish wings; a few are brightly colored. Slender with long and spiny legs, hind femora typically extending beyond tip of abdomen. Wings not folded flat on top of abdomen.
Depending on genus and species, pompilids capture a variety of spiders for their larvae to feed on, covering nearly all free-living spider families, including tarantulas, wolf spiders (Lycosidae), huntsman spiders (Sparassidae), jumping spiders (Salticidae) and baboon spiders (Harpactirinae), though any given pompilid tends to attack only a ...
spider wasp, (family Pompilidae), any of about 5,000 species of large, parasitoid wasps that paralyze spiders to feed their larval young. They are distributed throughout most of the world. About 40 species occur in Great Britain, and more than 300 species are found in North America.
22 mar 2022 · Twenty two years after the first checklist of Neotropical Spider Wasps, a new list of genera and species is offered, including novelties in phylogeny and systematics, as well as reviews, synonyms...
The family Pompilidae is one of the best-characterised and most easily recognised of the aculeate families represented in the British fauna. Known as the 'spider-hunting robber wasps' or, more simply, as 'spider wasps', they are predominantly of tropical distribution, .numbering between four and five thousand species; 41 species are
22 mar 2022 · Twenty two years after the first checklist of Neotropical Spider Wasps, a new list of genera and species is offered, including novelties in phylogeny and systematics, as well as reviews, synonyms and descriptions since the year 2000. Sixty three genera and 946 species of Pompilidae are listed.
