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Aporus
Sign in to saveAporus is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae, they specialise in hunting ground dwelling spiders in their burrows for laying eggs on.
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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Aporus, and connects out to Pompilidae, Animalia and insect.
It is catalogued under topics including Hymenoptera genera, Pompilinae and Taxa named by Maximilian Spinola.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 142
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Pompilidae
- Collections
- DUGWAY, UCSB, CU, NAUF, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA COLLECTION OF ARTHOPODS (UCFC), USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Panama
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pompilinae
- Image
- Spider wasp female (Pompilidae, Aporus concolor) (41298947624).jpg
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Aporus is a genus of spider wasps from the family Pompilidae, they specialise in hunting ground dwelling spiders in their burrows for laying eggs on.
Species within Aporus include Aporus andradei Wolf, 1970 Aporus apicatus Banks 1910 Aporus bicolor Spinola, 1808 Aporus concolor (Smith, 1860) Aporus cuzco Evans, 1973 Aporus hirsutus (Banks, 1917) Aourus idris (Cameron, 1867) Aporus japonicus Yasumatsu & Torikata 1934 Aporus luxus (Banks, 1914) Aporus niger Cresson 1897 Aporus pollux (Kohl, 1888) Aporus unicolor Spinola, 1808
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