Pompilus | |
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Pompilus cinereus with prey | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Pompilidae |
Subfamily: | Pompilinae |
Genus: |
Pompilus Fabricius, 1798 |
Type species | |
Pompilus pulcher Fabricius, 1798
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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.
Pompilus wasps are fossorial, stocking short burrows in sand with single spiders of various families upon which they lay a single egg. [2]
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: