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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
velvet Ant - Dasymutilla - male Mutillidae -? - Dasymutilla - male Dasymutilla sp. - Dasymutilla klugii - female Scoliid Wasp? - Dasymutilla magnifica - male Dasymutilla sicheliana Male, Sphaeropthalminae or Odontophotopsis? - male Male Dasymutilla - Dasymutilla - male Vevet ant - Sphaeropthalma marpesia - male

Family Myrmosidae - Myrmosid Wasps
wasp - Myrmosa - male Hymenoptera - Myrmosa Myrmosidae, wingless wasp, ventral - Myrmosa unicolor - female Wasp of some type - Myrmosa - male small wasp - Myrmosula Mutillidae? - Myrmosa - male Black, hairy wasp - Myrmosa Myrmosa unicolor - male

Family Pompilidae - Spider Wasps
small wasp - Priocnemis oregona Black wasp with orange and clear wings - Pepsis Tarantula Hawk hunting something besides spiders? - Entypus unifasciatus - female Tarantula Hawk? - Pepsis Notocyphus dorsalis arizonicus, larva - Notocyphus dorsalis - female Wasp - Episyron - male Black and Blue Wasp - Evagetes Agenioideus cinctellus - Agenioideus

Family Sapygidae - Club-horned Wasps
Perhaps a Tiphiid? - Eusapyga verticalis Interesting Wasp - Krombeinopyga pumila - male Interesting Wasp - Krombeinopyga pumila - male Sapyga centrata? - Sapyga centrata Wasp possible Sapygid? Ancistrocerus? - male Eusapyga? - male Gorytina? - Eusapyga rubripes


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