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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
Unidentified Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla - female what species？ - Myrmilloides grandiceps Mutillidae 4 - Dasymutilla 9051396 Timulla - Timulla ocellaria - male Thistledown Velvet Ant - Dasymutilla gloriosa - female Flying red carpenter ant? - male Male mutillid? - Sphaeropthalma difficilis Male, Dasymutilla - Dasymutilla sicheliana - male

Family Myrmosidae - Myrmosid Wasps
wasp - Myrmosa unicolor - male wasp - Myrmosa - male Black, hairy, and punctate - Myrmosa Unknown Hymenoptera - Myrmosa 9023971 wasp - Myrmosa Hymenoptera 25 - Myrmosa Unknown Hymenoptera - Myrmosa Vail mutillid - Myrmosula - female

Family Pompilidae - Spider Wasps
pompilid - Priocnemis cornica Wasp ID Request - Anoplius Poecilopompilus sp? - Poecilopompilus algidus Spider wasp - Auplopus mellipes Spider Wasp? - Agenioideus humilis Handsome Tarantula Hawk (ventral) - Pepsis thisbe - male Black Wasp Tarantula Hawk on flowers - Pepsis menechma

Family Sapygidae - Club-horned Wasps
this little wasp is NOT my friend Perhaps a Tiphiid? - Eusapyga verticalis Wasp - Sapyga louisi - male Wasp - Sapyga louisi Sapyga? Eumeninae? Hymenoptera. Sapyga sp. - Sapyga louisi Nicely marked wasp - Krombeinopyga pumila


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