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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 in six subfamilies.
Welcome to the BRITISH SPIDER HUNTING WASPS ON FLICKR site. Pompilids are slimly built, mostly long-legged, solitary aculeate wasps, all of which either develop as ectoparasitoids of paralyzed spiders, or as cleptoparasites of those other pompilids.
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps, [1] or pompilid wasps. [2] The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. [3]
Protection of spider-hunting wasps in Poland – threats, red list .....69 iV. key to subfamilies and genera of Polish Pompilidae ................................75
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.
1 sty 2009 · Annotated checklist of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) in the National Park «Pyryatynsky». The checklist includes 33 species of 13 genera of Spider Wasps.
Pompilidae. Solitary species known as spider, or spider-hunting, wasps. With their long legs they are usually seen making short rapid movements across bare ground and through short vegetation during warm, sunny weather. The female hunts for spiders as food for the larvae. See Day (1988) for details of prey.
