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Spider wasp

Auplopus carbonarius

Classification

Class
Insecta

Pompilidae is a family of wasps 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 (with the exception of some group-nesting Ageniellini), and most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are kleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders.

Distribution

Martien van den Heuvel · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 2,169United Kingdom · 260Germany · 221France · 56Belgium · 36Italy · 35Spain · 34Switzerland · 10Luxembourg · 6