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Superfamily Pompiloidea - Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants and allies

Velvet Ants · Myrmosid Wasps · Spider Wasps · Club-horned Wasps

Family Mutillidae - Velvet Ants
Bright orange spots - Dasymutilla - female Red Black Insect - Dasymutilla aureola Dasymutilla aureola pacifica - Dasymutilla aureola - male Velvet ant - Dasymutilla vestita - female Mutillidae - Pseudomethoca frigida velvet ant - Dasymutilla vestita - female Dasymutilla? - Dasymutilla ursus - female Velvet Ant - male

Family Myrmosidae - Myrmosid Wasps
ant-mimic wingless wasp - Myrmosa unicolor Unsure - Myrmosa - male - female wasp - Myrmosa - male Wasp of some type - Myrmosa - male Unknown Hymenoptera - Myrmosa Black Wasp - Myrmosa Myrmosidae, lateral - Myrmosa - female Loomis-J.2023.03 - Myrmosula

Family Pompilidae - Spider Wasps
Wasp ID Request - Episyron biguttatus - female Id request - Poecilopompilus interruptus - male What species of wasp is this? Spider Wasp? - Priocnemis hestia wasp - Phanagenia bombycina spider wasp - Anoplius - female Black Wasp, orange wing tips - Entypus unifasciatus Which Wasp?

Family Sapygidae - Club-horned Wasps
Sapyga angustata - male Tiny Parasitic Wasp - Krombeinopyga pumila Unidentified hymenopteran - Sapyga centrata - male Thynnidae? - female wasp - Sapyga centrata Sapygidae - Sapyga martinii Twin Lakes CO Hymenoptera Bee? - Sapyga centrata - female


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