Pompilus (wasp)
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| Pompilus | |
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| Pompilus cinereus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Pompilidae |
| Subfamily: | Pompilinae |
| Genus: | Pompilus Fabricius, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Pompilus pulcher Fabricius, 1798[1]
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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 stricto.[2] It is the type genus of the family Pompilidae and the subfamily Pompilinae.
Biology
[edit | edit source]Pompilus wasps are fossorial, stocking short burrows in sand with single spiders of various families upon which they lay a single egg.[2]
Distribution
[edit | edit source]The members of Pompilus are widely distributed throughout the Old World, in both temperate and tropical regions, but with the greatest diversity in Africa.[2]
The species are:
- Pompilus accolens Cresson, 1869[3]
- Pompilus bilineatus (Arnold 1937)[2]
- Pompilus botswana Day, 1972[2]
- Pompilus cadmius Saussure, 1892[2]
- Pompilus cinereus (Fabricius, 1775)[2]
- Pompilus irpex Gerstaecker, 1858[2]
- Pompilus mirandus (Saussure, 1867)[2]
- Pompilus niveus Saunders, 1901[2]
- Pompilus tripunctatus Spinola, 1808[3]
References
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