Pompilidae

plural noun

Pom·​pil·​i·​dae

pämˈpiləˌdē

: a large family of slender usually black fossorial short-petioled wasps with oval abdomen and strong spinose legs of which most (as the tarantula killer) burrow in the ground and provision their nests with spiders

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Pompilus, type genus + -idae

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