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Pompilus similaris (Banks, 1919)

Pompilus interstitialis Cameron, 1893:195,Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2000 to 3000 feet (leg. Champion); Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:340, Type ♀ (BMNH, no. 19,691). Synonymized with Anoplius simulans (Cresson, 1869) by Evans, 1966Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.:340. - Cameron, 1888-1900Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.:195 (listed); Dalla Torre, 1897Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749. (distribution), 296 (listed).
Anoplius similaris Banks, 1919:82, ♀. ♀, Ithaca, N.Y., 14, 25 July (leg. Bradley); Evans, 1951Evans, H.E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part III. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 77:203-340.:274, Type ♀ (C.U., no. 678). - Junco y Reyes, 1959Junco y Reyes, J.J. 1959. Himenópteros de Espana. Fam. Pompilidae (=Psammocharidae) Gen. Anopilus Duf. EOS Revista Española de Entomologia 35:41-95.:53 (listed). - As Anoplochares similaris: - As Arachnospila similaris: - Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8. (distribution); Leavengood et al., 2011Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8. (distribution). - As Pompilus similaris: - Evans, 1951Evans, H.E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part III. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 77:203-340. (distribution), 275 (biology); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution).

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Area distribution map

map of Pompilus similaris (Banks, 1919)

Distribution

CAN-OntCanada - Ontario
 (Evans, 1951; Krombein et al., 1979)
PANPanama
 (Cameron, 1893 [as Pompilus interstitialis Cameron, 1893]; Dalla Torre, 1897 [as Pompilus interstitialis Cameron, 1893]; Evans, 1966 [as Pompilus interstitialis Cameron, 1893])
USA-CTUnited States - Connecticut
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Krombein et al., 1979; Leavengood, Jr. J.M. et al., 2011; Leavengood et al., 2011)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-INUnited States - Indiana
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-MAUnited States - Masachusettes
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-NHUnited States - New Hampshire
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-NJUnited States - New Jersey
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-NYUnited States - New York
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-OHUnited States - Ohio
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-PAUnited States - Pennsylvania
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-VTUnited States - Vermont
 (Evans, 1951)
USA-WVUnited States - West Virginia
 (Evans, 1951)

Literature

  • Banks, N. 1919. New Psammocharidae and Philanthidae. The Canadian Entomologist 51:81-85.
  • Bradley, J.C. 1944. The generic position of certain Mexican Pompilidae (Hymenoptera), with description of a new genus. Notulae Naturae, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 145:1-12.
  • Cameron, P. 1888-1900. Biologia Centrali-Americana - Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. R. H. Porter and Dulau & Co., London. 413pp, 14 pl.
  • Cameron, P. 1893. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Insecta. Hymenoptera. (Fossores) Vol. II. :177-257.
  • Dalla Torre, C.G. 1897. Catalogus hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Volumen VIII: Fossores (Sphegidae). Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. 1-749.
  • Evans, H.E. 1951. A taxonomic study of the Nearctic spider wasps belonging to the tribe Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Part III. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 77:203-340.
  • Evans, H.E. 1966. A revision of the Mexican and central American spider wasps of the subfamily Pompilinae (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society :1-442.
  • Evans, H.E. 1972. Bredin-Archbold-Smithsonian Biological Survey of Dominica: Aculeate Wasps (Hymenoptera: Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 115:1-19.
  • Fernández, F., J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, B. Decker & J. Pitts 2022. Twenty two years later: An updated checklist of Neotropical spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Zootaxa 5116 (4):451-503.
  • Horta Vega, J.V., M.E.García Gutiérrez, M.I. Benavides Martínez & A. Correa Sandoval 2009. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) de algunos municipios del centro y sur de Tamaulipas, México. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 25 (1):71-82.
  • Junco y Reyes, J.J. 1959. Himenópteros de Espana. Fam. Pompilidae (=Psammocharidae) Gen. Anopilus Duf. EOS Revista Española de Entomologia 35:41-95.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Leavengood, J.M., C.Waichert & J. Rodriguez 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161:1-8.
  • Leavengood, Jr. J.M., Waichert, C. & Rodriguez, J. 2011. A distributional checklist of the spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of Florida. Insecta Mundi 0161 (March 2011):1-8.
  • Vanoye-Eligio, M., M. del C. Gómez-Camal, B. del R. Martín-Canché, M. Rosas-Mejía, J.V. HortaVega & V. Vanoye-Eligio 2021. Current knowledge of the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) in Mexico: diversity and geographical distribution. Zootaxa 5071 (4):505-536.
  • Waichert, C., Rodriguez, J. & J.P. Pitts 2014. New additions to the Honduran fauna of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the description of two species. Zootaxa 3873 (5):590-600.