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Ampulex Jurine Synonyms

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Apoidea; Family: Ampulicidae; Tribe: Ampulicini; Genus: Ampulex)

Ampulex Jurine 1807. Type species: Chlorion compressum of Latreille and of Fabricius [= Chlorion compressum
(Fabricius 1804) = Sphex compressus Fabricius 1781, designated by Audouin 1822.
Pronaeus Latreille 1809. Type species: Dryinus aeneus Fabricius 1804, designated by Latreille 1810. Synonymized by Pate 1935.
Lorrhoeum Shuckard 1837. Type species: Chlorion compressum (Fabricius 1804) [= Sphex compressus Fabricius 1781], by original designation and monotypy.
Rhinopsis Westwood 1844. Type species: Rhinopsis abbotti Westwood 1844 [= Ampulex canaliculata Say 1823], by monotypy.
Waagenia Kriechbaumer 1874. Type species: Waagenia sikkimensis Kriechbaumer 1874, by monotypy.
Chlorampulex de Saussure, 1892:441. Type species: Sphex compressus Fabricius 1781, designated by Pate 1937.

Reference

Bohart, R.M. & Menke, A. S. 1976. Sphecid Wasps of the World: a Generic Revision. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Links

CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees) compiled by
Wojciech J. Pulawski (California Academy of Sciences).

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