Spider wasp
（重定向自Pompilid）
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![Anoplius nigerrimus](/Images/godic/202502/03/Wasp_June_2013-2a3154.jpg")
![Wasp dragging a spider to its nest](/Images/godic/202502/03/Wasp_and_spider_023154.jpg")
![Spider-hunting wasp Anoplius dragging a spider larger than herself backwards across a sandy heath (four stages are shown in the composite image)](/Images/godic/202502/03/Pompilid_Wasp_Anoplius_cf_infuscatus_dragging_spider3154.jpg")
Wasps in the family Pompilidae are commonly called spider wasps or pompilid wasps. The family is cosmopolitan, with some 5,000 species in six subfamilies. All species are solitary, and most capture and paralyze prey, though members of the subfamily Ceropalinae are cleptoparasites of other pompilids, or ectoparasitoids of living spiders.