Pompilus (genus)
''Pompilus'' is a genus of spider wasps in the Family (biology), family Pompilidae, the members of which prey on spiders. There are seven species recognised in ''Pompilus sensu stricto''. It is the type genus of the family Pompilidae and the subfamily Pompilinae. Biology ''Pompilus ''wasps are fossorial, stocking short burrows in sand with single spiders of various families upon which they lay a single egg. Distribution The members of ''Pompilus'' are widely distributed throughout the Old World, in both temperate and tropical regions, but with the greatest diversity in Africa. The species are: *''Pompilus 3-punctatus'' Maximilian Spinola, Spinola, 1808 *''Pompilus accolens'' Ezra Townsend Cresson, Cresson, 1869 *''Pompilus cinereus'' (Johan Christian Fabricius, Fabricius, 1775) leaden spider wasp *''Pompilus mirandus'' (Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Saussure, 1867) *''Pompilus cadmius'' Saussure, 1892 *''Pompilus bilineatus'' (Arnold 1937) *''Pompilus botswana'' Michael ...
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Pompilus Cinereus
''Pompilus cinereus'', the leaden spider wasp is the most widespread species of the ''Pompilus (genus), Pompilus'' spider wasps, and throughout a large proportion of its wide distribution is the only species of ''Pompilus''. It is the type species of the genus ''Pompilus'' and therefore of the family Pompilidae. Distribution It is widespread throughout the Old World, including Mediterranean islands, Canary Islands, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Japan, the Philippines, Borneo, Java, and Australia. In Britain, it is mainly found in the south, but extends north to the central belt of Scotland. Variability ''P. cinereus'' is a highly variable species throughout its wide range, giving rise to the large number of synonyms which have been attached to the species by different authors. Where it overlaps with congeners in southern and central Africa and in southern Asia, the phenotype is stable and it can be distinguished from the species with which it is sympatric. Over the rest of its huge ra ...
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Ezra Townsend Cresson
Ezra Townsend Cresson, also Ezra Townsend senior (18 June 1838, in Byberry – 19 April 1926, in Swarthmore) was an American entomologist who specialised in the Hymenoptera order of insects. He wrote ''Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico'' Philadelphia: Paul C. Stockhausen, Entomological printer (1887) and many other works. His son Ezra Townsend, Jr. (1876–1948) was also an entomologist but a specialist in Diptera. Cresson also documented many new species including ''Nomada texana ''Nomada texana'' is a species of bee native to the southern and western United States and other parts of North America (including Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sover ...''. References * Essig, E. O. 1931 ''A History of Entomology''. -New York, Macmillan Company. *Mallis, A. 1971 ''American Entomologists''. Rutgers Univ. Press New Brunswick 343-348, Portr. *Osborn, H. 1937 ...
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Edward Saunders (entomologist)
Edward Saunders, FRS (22 March 1848 – 6 February 1910) was an English entomologist, who specialised in Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Hymenoptera. Life Saunders was born at East Hill, Wandsworth, on 22 March 1848, the youngest of seven children of William Wilson Saunders (known for sponsoring the collecting expeditions of Alfred Russel Wallace), who was a treasurer for the Linnean Society. Schooled at Reigate, he was interested in natural history like his siblings. He joined the business of his father at Lloyds Bank, studying entomology in his spare time. His earliest publication was ''Coleoptera at Lowestoft'' in the first volume of the ''Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine'' when he was sixteen years old. He would later become an editor of the Magazine. His ''Catalogus Buprestidarum'' of 1871 was "''a work whose importance was immediately recognised, and which has ever since remained a classic. In order to render the synonymies ... as reliable as possible, he undertook t ...
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Pompilus Niveus
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...

Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (30 August 1828 – 20 June 1895) was a German zoologist, entomologist and professor at the University of Berlin and then the University of Greifswald. Biography Gerstaecker was born in Berlin, where he studied medicine and natural sciences, receiving his PhD in 1855 as a student of Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug. In 1856 he obtained his habilitation for zoology, and soon afterwards, became a curator at the Zoological Museum of Humboldt University. In 1864 he began work as a lecturer at the Landwirtschaftlichen Lehranstalt (Agricultural Educational Facility) in Berlin. In 1874 he became an associate professor for zoology at the University of Berlin, and in 1876, a professor of zoology at the University of Greifswald. He died in Greifswald. Works * ''Monographie der Endomychiden'' (1858) – Monograph on Endomychidae. * ''Handbuch der Zoologie'' (with Wilhelm Peters und Julius Victor Carus), Leipzig (1863-1875). * (Arthropoda) * Arthropod ...
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Pompilus Irpex
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...

Michael Charles Day
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= * Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I ...
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Pompilus Botswana
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...

Pompilus Bilineatus
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...

Pompilus Cadmius
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...

Henri Louis Frédéric De Saussure
Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (; ; 27 November 1829 – 20 February 1905) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthopteroid insects. He also was a prolific taxonomist. Biography Saussure's elementary education was at Alphonse Briquet's then, as an adolescent, at the Hofwyl school run by Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg. At the University of Geneva he was taught by François Jules Pictet de la Rive, who introduced him to entomology. After several years of study in Paris he received the degree of licentiate of the Faculty of Paris and obtained the degree of Doctor from the University of Giessen. He worked mainly on Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. His first paper, in 1852, was on solitary wasps. In 1854 he traveled to the West Indies, then to Mexico and the United States of America. There he met Louis Agassiz. He returned to Switzerland in 1856 with collections of American insects, myriapods, crustaceans, birds and ...
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Pompilus Mirandus
Pompilus may refer to: * '' Pompilus (wasp)'', a genus of wasps in the family Pompilidae * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Centrolopidae; synonym of ''Centrolophus'' * ''Pompilus'', a genus of fishes in the family Carangidae; synonym of ''Naucrates'' * Pompilus (mythology) Pompilus ( grc, Πομπίλος, Pompilos, pilot fish) is a minor character in Greek mythology who incurred the wrath of the god Apollo when he foiled the god's plans as he was chasing the nymph Ocyrhoe. Mythology During a festival in honou ...