The first checklist of the Peruvian Hymenoptera listed 1169 species and subspecies of aculeate wasps, including 173 species of Pompilidae, seven of Scoliidae, 39 of Sphecidae and 403 of Vespidae. Herein are reported 32 species as new for Peru based mainly on the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. The loss of the endemic status of two species is also reported: Entypus peruvianus (...

Accurate fossil identification has become increasingly relevant with the widespread use of phylogenetic divergence time estimation methods, which rely on fossil data to determine clade hard-minimum ages. Here we revise, diagnose and illustrate known spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) fossil species and place them within the latest Pompilidae phylogenetic hypothesis. Ceropalites infelix Cocke...

Aporinellus Banks, Austrochares Banks and Dicranoplius Haupt are new generic records for Colombia, as well as the species Dipogon ariel Banks, Evagetes peruana Banks, and Euplaniceps notabilis (Smith). Five new combinations are formally endorsed: Aimatocare argentinica (Banks), comb. n.; Aimatocare longula (Banks), comb. n.; Aimatocare imitator (Evans), comb. n.; Aimatocare impensa (Evans), com...

The behavior of amputating the legs spider prey by Cyphononyx fulvognathus (Pepsini, Pepsinae, Pompilidae) is reported for first time. was a female Heteropoda, presumably H. venatoria (Araneae: Sparassidae), which also record Heteropoda this wasp species. present observation found to be one uncommon examples amputation Pompilidae, common in species Ageniellini (Pepsinae).

We describe two new species of Ctenocerinae (Pompilidae) from Asia, i.e., Ctenocerus srilankae Shimizu sp. nov. Sri Lanka and Paraclavelia arabiae Oman. These represent the first records Dahlbom, 1845 Haupt, 1930 in Asia. Two combinations a synonymy are proposed: fasciatus (Smith, 1851) (= Micropteryx fasciata Smith, 1851); decipiens (Arnold, 1932) Clavelia Arnold, 1932); Euclavelia 1932). disc...

Until recently, studies examining the geographical distribution of insects in the Tuscan Archipelago have focused on paleogeography as the primary influence on species distributions. However, for flying insects such as Hymenoptera that may be able to disperse over water, current geographical location is likely to be more important in determining present distributions within the Archipelago. Her...

The usage of Paraferreola Šustera, 1912 since its proposal as a genus spider wasps, but based on misidentified type species ( Sphex ursus Fabricius, 1793, actually Mutillidae), shows that it continues to be applied (although infrequently) in Pompilidae, despite the new names Eoferreola Arnold, 1935 and Tea Pate, 1946) for equivalent generic concept. Application Article 70.3.2 fourth edition Int...

New records of genera and species of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Colombia are provided. Agenioideus, Cryptocheilus, Evagetes, Mystacagenia, and Xerochares are newly recorded genera from Colombia. Nineteen species are first recorded from Colombia: Aimatocarevitrea (Fox); Ageniellaazteca (Cameron); Ageniellacurtipinus (Cameron); Ageniellafallax (Arlé); Ageniellahirsuta Banks; Agen...

Krombein, Karl V. Biosystematic Studies of Ceylonese Wasps, XIX: Natural History Notes in Several Families (Hymenoptera: Eumenidae, Vespidae, Pompilidae, and Crabronidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, number 515, 41 pages, 59 figures, 1991.—Behavioral, ecological, and distributional data are provided for 40 species of Sri Lankan wasps in the families Eumenidae, Vespidae, Pompilidae, an...

Animal mitochondrial genomes have provided large and diverse datasets for evolutionary studies. Here, the first two representative mitochondrial genomes from the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) were determined using next-generation sequencing. The sequenced region of these two mitochondrial genomes from the species Auplopus sp. and Agenioideus sp. was 16,746 bp long with an A + T con...