Tachypompilus Explained

Tachypompilus is a genus of spider wasps, found in the Neotropics^{[1] [2] [3]} Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Indomalayan and Afrotropics.

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)

Notes and References

1. .Starr . Christopher K. . Hook . Allan W . 2003 . The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies . Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies . 12 . 1–31.
2. Waichert . Cecilia . Rodriguez . Juanita . von Dolen . Carol . Pitts . James P. . 2012 . The Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic . Zootaxa . 3353 . 1–47. 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1 .
3. Fernadez . Fernando . 2000 . Avispas cazadores de aranas (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) de la Region Neotropical . Biota Colombia . 1 . 1 . 3–25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160921000748/http://icn.unal.edu.co/publicaciones/art/206/1-N1/Avispas+Cazadoras.pdf . 2016-09-21 .