Tachypompilus

{{Short description|Genus of insects}}

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| image = Tachypompilus ignitus PompilidaeIMG 3672a.jpg

| image_caption = Tachypompilus ignitus

| taxon = Tachypompilus

| authority = Ashmead, 1902{{cite web |url = http://www.waspweb.org/Vespoidea/Pompilidae/Pompilinae/Tachypompilus/index.htm | title = Tachypompilus Ashmead | access-date = 29 August 2016 | publisher = Iziko Museums of South Africa}}

| type_species = Tachypompilus abbotti

| type_species_authority = Ashmead, 1902{{cite journal | author = V.S.L. Pate | year = 1946 | title = The Generic Names of the Spider Wasps (Psammocharidae olim Pompilidae) and Their Type Species (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) | journal = Transactions of the American Entomological Society |volume = 72 | issue = 3 | pages = 65–137| jstor = 25077544 }}

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Tachypompilus is a genus of spider wasps, found in the Neotropics.{{cite journal | last1 = Starr |first1 = Christopher K. | last2 = Hook | first2 = Allan W | year = 2003 | title = The aculeate Hymenoptera of Trinidad, West Indies | url = https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/documents/aculeates.pdf | journal = Occasional Papers of the Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies | volume = 12 | pages = 1–31}}{{cite journal | last1 = Waichert | first1 = Cecilia | last2 = Rodriguez | first2 = Juanita | last3 = von Dolen | first3 = Carol |last4 = Pitts | first4 = James P. | year = 2012 | title = The Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264549425 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3353 | pages = 1–47| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1 }}{{cite journal | last1 = Fernadez | first1 = Fernando | year = 2000 | title = Avispas cazadores de aranas (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) de la Region Neotropical | url = http://icn.unal.edu.co/publicaciones/art/206/1-N1/Avispas+Cazadoras.pdf | journal = Biota Colombia | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 3–25 | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160921000748/http://icn.unal.edu.co/publicaciones/art/206/1-N1/Avispas+Cazadoras.pdf | archive-date = 2016-09-21 }} Nearctic, eastern Palearctic, Indomalayan and Afrotropics.