Ampulex

Short description: Genus of wasps

Ampulex

Ampulex compressa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hymenoptera
Family:  | Ampulicidae
Tribe:  | Ampulicini
Genus:  | Ampulex
Jurine, 1807
Type species
Ampulex compressa

(Fabricius, 1781)

Species

>130 species

Ampulex is a large cosmopolitan genus of wasps belonging to the family Ampulicidae. Most of the >130 species occur in the tropics, particularly in the Old World, and fewer than 15 are known from the New World; fewer than 5 species are native to Europe or the United States , though the Old World species Ampulex compressa has spread to virtually everywhere that its host roaches (esp. the genus Periplaneta) can be found.[1] The few species whose biology is known are parasitoids of cockroaches; they typically inject venom into the roach that subdues or immobilizes it,[2] and then lay one to two eggs between the legs of the defenseless roach.[3]

## Selected species

* Ampulex canaliculata Say, 1823[4]
* Ampulex compressa Fabricius, 1781 – jewel wasp or emerald cockroach wasp
* Ampulex dementor Ohl, 2014
* Ampulex fasciata Jurine, 1807
* Ampulex ferruginea Bradley, 1934
* Ampulex ruficollis Cameron, 1889

For further species see ITIS.[5]

## References

1. ↑ Soares, M. A.; Moreira, P. S. A.; Campos, L. a. O.; Nogueira, R. M.; Pereira, M. R.; Campos, A. K.; Pires, E. M.; Soares, M. A. et al. (August 2014). "First report of "jewel wasp" Ampulex compressa (Fabricius, 1781) (Hymenoptera: Ampulicidae) in the Amazon Biome of Brazil" (in en). Brazilian Journal of Biology 74 (3): S233–S234. doi:10.1590/1519-6984.05913. ISSN 1519-6984. PMID 25627390.
2. ↑ Gal, Ram; Rosenberg, Lior Ann; Libersat, Frederic (November 2005). "Parasitoid wasp uses a venom cocktail injected into the brain to manipulate the behavior and metabolism of its cockroach prey". Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 60 (4): 198–208. doi:10.1002/arch.20092. PMID 16304619. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112152224/abstract.
3. ↑ Eizemberg, Roberto; Bressan-Nascimento, Suzete; Fox, Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson (September 2009). "Notes on the Biology and Behaviour of the Jewel Wasp, Ampulex compressa (Fabricius, 1781) (Hymenoptera; Ampulicidae), in the Laboratory, Including First Record of Gregarious Reproduction". Entomological News 120 (4): 430–437. doi:10.3157/021.120.0412. ISSN 0013-872X.
4. ↑ Image of A. canaliculata
5. ↑ "Ampulex". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=154311.

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