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Tachypompilus

Tachypompilus is a genus of spider wasps, found in the Neotropics Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Indomalayan and Afrotropics.

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Tachypompilus
Tachypompilus ignitus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Pompilidae
Subfamily: Pompilinae
Genus: Tachypompilus
Ashmead, 19021
Type species
Tachypompilus abbotti
Ashmead, 19022

Tachypompilus is a genus of spider wasps, found in the Neotropics345 Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Indomalayan and Afrotropics.1

Species

The species included in Tachypompilius include:

  • Tachypompilus analis (Fabricius, 1781) red-tailed spider wasp
  • Tachypompilus atratus (Colomo de Correa, 1985)
  • Tachypompilus banksi (Colomo de Correa, 1985)
  • Tachypompilus erubescens (Taschenberg, 1869)
  • Tachypompilus ferrugineus (Say, 1824) rusty spider wasp
  • Tachypompilus gracilis (Colomo de Correa, 1985)
  • Tachypompilus ignitus (Smith, 1855) rain spider wasp
  • Tachypompilus larssoni (Kurczewski, 2007)
  • Tachypompilus latus (Smith)
  • Tachypompilus mendozae (Dalla Torre, 1897)
  • Tachypompilus ovambo (Arnold, 1937)
  • Tachypompilus pallidus (Banks, 1947)
  • Tachypompilus praepotens (Kohl, 1894)
  • Tachypompilus rubiginosus (Taschenberg)
  • Tachypompilus torridus (Cresson)
  • Tachypompilus unicolor (Banks, 1919) red-tailed spider hunter
  • Tachypompilus vitripennis (Arnold, 1937)
  • Tachypompilus vulpes (Dalla Torre)
  • Tachypompilus xanthopterus (Rohwer, 1913)
References

References

  1. "Tachypompilus Ashmead". Iziko Museums of South Africa. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. V.S.L. Pate (1946). "The Generic Names of the Spider Wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and Their Type Species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 72 (3): 65–137. JSTOR 25077544.
  3. .Starr, Christopher K.; Hook, Allan W (2003). "The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies" (PDF). Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies. 12: 1–31.
  4. Waichert, Cecilia; Rodriguez, Juanita; von Dolen, Carol; Pitts, James P. (2012). "The Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic". Zootaxa. 3353: 1–47. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1.
  5. Fernadez, Fernando (2000). "Avispas cazadores de aranas (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) de la Region Neotropical" (PDF). Biota Colombia. 1 (1): 3–25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-21.