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Spider Wasp (Pompilidae sp)

Spider Wasp (Pompilidae sp)
Spider Wasp (Pompilidae sp)

About Spider Wasp (Pompilidae sp)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Arthropods
  • Class: Insects
  • Order: Bees, Wasps, and Ants
  • Family: Spider Wasps

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. Nearly all species are solitary, and most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are kleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders.

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