spider wasps
pompilidae latin

Evagetes is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae.

Therse are medium-sized black spider wasps with some red.

Arachnospila anceps is one of the more common spider wasps of western Europe.

Pompilidotoxin is named after the pompilidae wasp family (commonly called spider wasps).

The nesting behaviour is quite complex compared to most other spider wasps and shows the behavioural versatility of the female wasp.

Spider wasps of the genus Pepsis, also known as tarantula hawks, have a sting rating of 4.

Family Pompilidae (spider wasps)

It is one of the commonest Spider Wasps found in Great Britain and Ireland.

Cryptocheilus is a genus of spider wasps of the subfamily Pepsinae, they are found in the world's warmer regions.

Pompilidotoxin is a toxin from the venom of spider wasps that slows the inactivation of Nachannels.

S. nitidus is kleptoparasitic on other members of its own species, and on other spider wasps, including Priocnemis monachus.

Spider wasps are long-legged, solitary wasps that use a single spider as a host for feeding their larvae.

Interestingly A. trivialis will prey on spiders of both sexes while most spider wasps prefer to prey on females.

Enemies of the trapdoor spider include certain pompilids (spider wasps), which seek out the burrows and manage to gain entrance.

Cryptocheilus notatus is the largest species of spider wasps (Pompilidae) to be found in Great Britain reaching up to 18mm in length.

Spiders often wrap their wriggling prey in silk, and spider wasps, in turn, inflict paralyzing stings on the spiders they catch.

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.

Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis in the family Pompilidae (spider wasps).

It hunts other spider wasps which are then attacked when they have prey, after fending off the victim an eggs is laid, in the book lung of the spider.

Arachnospila is a predominantly Holarctic genus of spider wasps, with limited representation in montane habitats in Neotropical and Afrotropical regions.

As mentioned above, the Pompilidae get their common name, "spider wasps", from their notable behavior of hunting and killing spiders, often larger than themselves, as food for their larvae.

The Spider Wasps of the subfamily Ctenocerinae found in the Neotropics, Africa and Australia are specialised hunters of trapdoor spiders.

The spiders of this genus are unusual in having a mask-like hardened plate on the opisthosoma, which seems to act as a second door to exclude predators, like the spider wasps.

Auplopus is a large genus of spider wasps belonging to the subfamily Pepsinae of the spider wasp family Pompilidae, distributed throughout the world except for Antarctica.

The Ctenocerinae are a subfamily of spider wasps, Pompilidae, which contains a small number of genera, two in the Neotropics, four in Australia and the remainder in Africa.

Most Pompilidae have the inner margin of the eye straight.

Adult Pompilidae are nectar-feeding insects and feed on a variety of plants.

Currently, the Pompilidae are split unequally into six subfamilies throughout most of the world.

Dipogon bifasciatus is a spider wasp from the family Pompilidae.

Like other strong fliers, the thorax of Pompilidae is modified for efficient flight.

Episyron is a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae which prey on spiders.

It is the type genus of the family Pompilidae and the sub-family Pompilinae.

Prominent examples are predatory wasps (especially Sphecidae, Vespidae, and Pompilidae).

Family Pompilidae (spider wasps)

In using the term parasitoid it is common to think in terms of parasitoidal insects such as Tachinidae and Pompilidae.

The Pepsinae are a subfamily of the spider wasp family, Pompilidae, including the tarantula hawks, as well as smaller species.

Ceropales is a genus of kleptoparasitic spider wasps from the sub-family Ceropalinae of the family Pompilidae.

Epipompilus is a genus of spider wasps in the subfanily Ctenocerinae, part of the widespread family Pompilidae.

Anoplius is a genus of spider wasps in the famuly Pompilidae, called the blue-black spider wasps.

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.

The Pompilinae are a subfamily of the spider wasp family, Pompilidae, the species of which lay their eggs on the paralysed bodies of their prey.

Regardless of their fearsome reputation, tarantulas are themselves an object of predation, the most specialized of these predators are large members of the wasp family Pompilidae.

Natural history and behavior of a primitively social wasp Auplopus semialatus, and a parasite, Irenangelus eberhardi (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae).

As mentioned above, the Pompilidae get their common name, "spider wasps", from their notable behavior of hunting and killing spiders, often larger than themselves, as food for their larvae.

Auplopus is a large genus of spider wasps belonging to the subfamily Pepsinae of the spider wasp family Pompilidae, distributed throughout the world except for Antarctica.

Species parasitic on the spiders include a wasp of the Pompilidae family that stings the spider to paralyse it before carrying it off and laying an egg in its abdomen.

This action can be used to successfully escape predators such as the Pompilidae tarantula wasps, which lay their eggs in a paralyzed spider for their larvae to feed on when they hatch.

The Ctenocerinae are a subfamily of spider wasps, Pompilidae, which contains a small number of genera, two in the Neotropics, four in Australia and the remainder in Africa.

The metathorax is solidly fused to the pronotum and metathorax; moreover, the prothorax is best developed in families such as Pompilidae and Scoliidae because they use their forelegs to dig.

Predators or parasitoids, mostly on other terrestrial insects; most species of Pompilidae (e.g. tarantula hawks), specialize in using spiders as prey, and various parasitic wasps use spiders or other arachnids as reproductive hosts.