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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae » Cockroach Wasps (Ampulicidae)

Family Ampulicidae - Cockroach Wasps

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Food · Works Cited
Cockroach Wasp - Ampulex ferruginea Ampulex canaliculata? - Ampulex canaliculata Ampulex canaliculata? - Ampulex canaliculata Wasp? - Ampulex ferruginea Predatory Wasp - Ampulex canaliculata Cockroach Wasp? - Ampulex canaliculata Cockroach Wasp? - Ampulex canaliculata Ampulicid?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Ampulicidae (Cockroach Wasps)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated within Sphecidae
Numbers
4 spp. in 3 genera in our area(1), ca. 200 spp. in 6 genera worldwide(2)
Food
adults capture cockroach nymphs to feed the larvae (and, unlike other sphecoid wasps, carry the prey backwards, on foot, like most pompilids)(1)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
2.Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 28 October, 2006 - 11:31am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 30 October, 2010 - 12:41pm

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