''Tachypompilus'' is a genus of
spider wasp
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are 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-ne ...
s, found in the
Neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
[.]Nearctic
The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America t ...
, eastern
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
,
Indomalayan
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
and
Afrotropic
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
s.
Species
The species included in ''Tachypompilius'' include:
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Tachypompilus analis''
(Fabricius, 1781) red-tailed spider wasp
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Tachypompilus atratus''
(Colomo de Correa, 1985)
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Tachypompilus banksi''
(Colomo de Correa, 1985)
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Tachypompilus erubescens''
(Taschenberg, 1869)
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Tachypompilus ferrugineus
''Tachypompilus ferrugineus'', the rusty spider wasp, red-tailed spider hunter, or sometimes red-tailed spider wasp (but that name is also used for the Asian species '' Tachypompilus analis'') is a species of spider wasp from the Americas. It pr ...
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(Say, 1824) rusty spider wasp
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Tachypompilus gracilis''
(Colomo de Correa, 1985)
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Tachypompilus ignitus
The rain spider wasp or red-femora spider wasp (''Tachypompilus ignitus'') is an Afrotropical species of spider wasp specialising in capturing spiders of the genus ''Palystes'', the rain spiders.
Distribution
This spider wasp is found in Southe ...
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(Smith, 1855) rain spider wasp
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Tachypompilus larssoni''
(Kurczewski, 2007)
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Tachypompilus latus''
(Smith)
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Tachypompilus mendozae''
(Dalla Torre, 1897)
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Tachypompilus ovambo''
(Arnold, 1937)
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Tachypompilus pallidus''
(Banks, 1947)
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Tachypompilus praepotens''
(Kohl, 1894)
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Tachypompilus rubiginosus''
(Taschenberg)
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Tachypompilus torridus''
(Cresson)
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Tachypompilus unicolor''
(Banks, 1919) red-tailed spider hunter
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Tachypompilus vitripennis''
(Arnold, 1937)
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Tachypompilus vulpes''
(Dalla Torre)
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Tachypompilus xanthopterus''
(Rohwer, 1913)
References
Pompilinae
Hymenoptera genera
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