Spider wasp

Spider wasp; Temporal range:
	Western Australian pompilid captures a large huntsman spider
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Pompiloidea
Family:	Pompilidae; Latreille, 1804
Subfamilies
	see text

Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps, spider-hunting wasps,^[1] or pompilid wasps.^[2] The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies.^[3] Nearly all species are solitary (with the exception of some group-nesting Ageniellini^[4]), and most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are kleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders.^[5]

In South America, species may be referred to colloquially as marabunta or marimbondo, though these names can be generally applied to any very large stinging wasps. Furthermore, in some parts of Venezuela and Colombia, it is called matacaballos, or "horse killers", while in Brazil some particular bigger and brighter species of the general marimbondo kind might be called fecha-goela/cerra-goela, or "throat locker".

^ "Pompilidae Spider-Hunting Wasp". NBN Atlas. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
^ Costa, Fernando G.; Pérez-Miles, Fernando; Mignone, Antonio (April 2004). "Pompilid Wasp Interactions with Burrowing Tarantulas: Pepsis cupripennis versus Eupalaestrus weijenberghi and Acanthoscurria suina (Araneae, Theraphosidae)" (PDF). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 39 (1): 37–43. doi:10.1080/01650520412331270945. ISSN 0165-0521. OCLC 231044349. S2CID 84475545. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
^ Pitts, James P.; Wasbauer MS & von Dohlen CD (2005). "Preliminary morphological analysis of relationships between the spider wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): revisiting an old problem". Zoologica Scripta. 35 (1): 63–84. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00217.x. S2CID 86180326.
^ Evans, H.E.; Shimizu, A. (1996). "The evolution of nest building and communal nesting in Ageniellini (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)". Journal of Natural History. 30 (11): 1633–1648. doi:10.1080/00222939600770961.
^ Cite error: The named reference goulet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] "Pompilidae Spider-Hunting Wasp". NBN Atlas. Retrieved 10 August 2019.

[CostaPérez-Miles2004-2] Costa, Fernando G.; Pérez-Miles, Fernando; Mignone, Antonio (April 2004). "Pompilid Wasp Interactions with Burrowing Tarantulas: Pepsis cupripennis versus Eupalaestrus weijenberghi and Acanthoscurria suina (Araneae, Theraphosidae)" (PDF). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment. 39 (1): 37–43. doi:10.1080/01650520412331270945. ISSN 0165-0521. OCLC 231044349. S2CID 84475545. Retrieved 20 April 2012.

[Pitts2005-3] Pitts, James P.; Wasbauer MS & von Dohlen CD (2005). "Preliminary morphological analysis of relationships between the spider wasp subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): revisiting an old problem". Zoologica Scripta. 35 (1): 63–84. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00217.x. S2CID 86180326.

[4] Evans, H.E.; Shimizu, A. (1996). "The evolution of nest building and communal nesting in Ageniellini (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)". Journal of Natural History. 30 (11): 1633–1648. doi:10.1080/00222939600770961.

[goulet-5] Cite error: The named reference goulet was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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