POMPILIDAE Latreille, 1805
(spider-hunting wasps)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
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ID refs
PEPSINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Female (Click to open)
 		Subfamily 5 subtaxa 74 images
POMPILINAE
a subfamily of hymenopterans
Female (Click to open)
 		Subfamily 3 subtaxa 20 images
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPOMPILIDAE (spider-hunting wasps)
SuperfamilyVESPOIDEA (wasps)
InfraorderAculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Berland, L. 1925 *** Hyménoptères Vespiformes I (Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae) ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 10, 364pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel
Day, M. 1988 Spider Wasps - Hymenoptera: Pompilidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol. VI, Part 4, 60pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Day, M.C., updated and remastered by Storey, M. 2016 Spider Wasps: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae (females) https://www.bioimages.org.uk/ichneumon_files.htm
Day, M.C., updated and remastered by Storey, M. 2016 Spider Wasps: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae (males) https://www.bioimages.org.uk/ichneumon_files.htm
Falk, S. Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants and relatives) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629294459686/
Storey, M.W. 2016 The Ichneumon Files http://www.bioimages.org.uk/ichneumon_files.htm
Wisniowski, B. 2009 Spider-hunting wasps of Poland 432pp, Ojców National Park Poland

POMPILIDAE (spider-hunting wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for POMPILIDAE (spider-hunting wasps)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 27 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for POMPILIDAE (spider-hunting wasps)
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