A Taxonomic Study of the Nearctic Spider Wasps Belonging to the Tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera

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Excerpt from A Taxonomic Study of the Nearctic Spider Wasps Belonging to the Tribe Pompilini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), Vol. 1 In 1910 appeared the first of a long series of papers by Nathan Banks on the Pompilidae (or, as he renamed them, the Psam mocharidae) Of North America and many other parts Of the globe. His 1911 paper, Psammocharidae: classification and descriptions, established a far sounder classification of the family, with work able keys.3 In subsequent papers he has described many new genera and species, and elaborated upon and modified his ideas about the family. Perhaps at times he has been prone to describe genera on the basis of very insignificant characters, and to describe, as species, forms which are onlv variants of others, his classifi cation is, furthermore, based almost exclusively on the females. Nevertheless, Professor Banks' contributions to our knowledge of the Nearctic Pompilidae have been very great, and his tireless research on these wasps deserves the respect of all modern students of the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.