Family Pompilidae Latreille 1804 (spider wasp)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pompilidae
Synonym: Psammocharidae
Parent taxon: Pompiloidea according to E. M. Pilgrim et al. 2008
See also Archibald et al. 2018, Brothers 1999, Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1906, Cockerell 1941, Rasnitsyn 1975, Sharkey 2007, Statz 1936 and Wappler 2003
Sister taxa: Burmusculidae, Mutillidae, Myrmosidae, Sapygidae
Subtaxa: Pepsinae Pompilinae Pompilites
Type: Pompilus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Pliocene of Japan (1)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Germany (1), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of France (4), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Colorado, Washington)
Total: 24 collections including 32 occurrences