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Ampulex compressus Fabricius
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa (animals);
Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda; Order:
Hymenoptera; Superfamily:
Apoidea; Family: Ampulicidae; Subfamily: Ampulicinae; Genus:
Ampulex)
Sphex compressus
Fabricius, 1781. SYNTYPE: in (BMNH). Type locality: Kerala,
Malabar, India.
Ampulex sinensis
de Saussure, 1867. SYNTYPE: in (NHMW). Type locality: Hong
Kong, China.
Chlorampulex striolata de Saussure, 1892. SYNTYPE: in (MHNG). Type locality:
Zanzibar, Tanzania. |
Distribution
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Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion,
Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, St. Helena, Tanzania, Yemen. Also in Australian,
Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental regions. |
Biology
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Unknown, but probably preys on cockroaches, which is
typical for the genus. |
References
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Bohart, R.M. &
Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a
Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
Soliman AM, Gadallah NS, Ohl M & Dhafer HMA. 2017.
Revision of the digger wasps of the Ampulicidae and Heterogynaidae (Hymenoptera)
of Saudi Arabia, with the description of a new species of the enigmatic genus
Heterogyna Nagy. Journal of Natural History 51: 2057-2085. DOI:
10.1080/00222933.2017.1355492.
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Links
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CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE
sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences). |
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