Pompilinae

Tribal classification has been revised numerous times with little consensus between authors. Bradley's 1944 classification used 7 tribes: Allocharini, Allocyphononychini, Aporini, Ctenocerini, Epipompilini, Pedinaspini, Pompilini. Evans's 1951 classification only included 5 of these tribes, omitting Allocharini and Allocyphononychini. Ctenocerini has since been elevated to subfamily status as Ctenocerinae, and Epipompilini has been omitted by Pitts et al. in 2006.^[2] Engel and Grimaldi, later in 2006, included 17 extant tribes: Allocharini, Allocyphonychini, Anoplageniini, Anopliini, Aporini (with 3 subtribes), Cordyloscelidini, Eidopompilini, Entomoborini, Episyronini, Notocyphini, Pedinaspini, Pompilini, Psammoderini, Pseudopompilini, Spuridiophorini, Tachypompilini, and Teinotrachelini.^[3] Waichert et al. added two additional tribes in 2015, Priochilini with 2 genera and Sericopompilini with a single genus.^[2] While Ghahari et al. reinstated Homonotini in 2014 as a separate tribe from Aporini,^[4] Loktionov and Lelej maintained the treatment of Engel and Grimaldi as a subtribe of Aporini.^[5] In 2015, Waichert et al. removed Notocyphini from Pompilinae, treating it as the separate subfamily, Notocyphinae.^[2] Loktionov's 2023 distributional catalog included the type genera of Cordyloscelidini and Spuridiophorini and the type genus of Teinotrachelini under Ctenocerinae. The type genera of Allocyphonychini, Anoplageniini, and Pedinaspini were also omitted.^[6]

The summary of the represented tribes is as follows:

• Allocharini
• Anopliini
• Aporini contains 6 genera of Aporina^[7] plus one genus each in Ferreolina and Homonotina.^[5]
• Eidopompilini
• Entomoborini
• Episyronini
• Pompilini
• Priochilini contains 2 genera^[2][8]
• Psammoderini
• Pseudopompilini
• Sericopompilini contains a single genus ^[2]
• Tachypompilini contains a single genus^[2]