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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Cockroach Wasps (Ampulicidae) » Ampulex » Ampulex canaliculata
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Ampulex canaliculata - female
Copyright © 2006 Nick Fensler

Ampulex canaliculata - Female
Lima, Allen County, Ohio, USA
September 8, 2004
Size: ~11 mm
This is a strange dorsolateral view (I didn't have it pinned and this was the only way could get it to stay in the view I wanted) of the wasp I was referring to in my comments under the Ampulex ferruginea. It shows very different integumental coloration from the Ampulex ferruginea. I captured it lugging a Parcoblatta cockroach up a recently dead Shagbark Hickory.
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Contributed by Nick Fensler on 4 July, 2006 - 10:46am
Last updated 28 May, 2007 - 11:25pm

Ampulex
Typo.
… Adalbert Goertz, 4 July, 2006 - 9:39pm login or register to post comments

 
A-M-P-U-L-E-X
Oops. It's fixed.
… Nick Fensler, 4 July, 2006 - 10:26pm login or register to post comments

 
I checked out your comments on the other one
(below), and moved this image to the A. canaliculata guide page. I have also created a page for A. ferruginea and moved the other one to it. Your reasoning looks good to me, but I expect Eric will have a comment to make, if not. He should be subscribed to the other one so he'll see the discussion there.

I also cropped this image to show more detail. Even though it's not a good shot, it serves to illustrate your point, so I don't think you should frass it until we get more images of one or both species.

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 5 July, 2006 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

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