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Subfamily AMPULICINAE
Genus AMPULEX Jurine
Ampuledc Jurine, 1807. Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym. Dipt., p. 132.
Type-species: Sphex coiupressus Fabricius. Desig. by Audouin, 1822.
Proyioeus Latreille, 1809. Gen. Crust. Ins., v. 4, p. 56.
Type-species: Dryinus aeneus Fabricius. Monotypic.
Lorrheum Leach, 1837. In Shuckard, Essay on Indig. Fossor. Hym., p. 18. A manuscript
name of Leach, validated by Shuckard.
Type-species: Sphex compresstis Fabricius. Desig. by Shuckard, 1837.
Rhinopsis Westwood, 1844. Arcana Ent., v. 2, p. 68.
Type-species: Rhiywpsis Abbottii Westwood. Monotypic.
Waageyiia Kriechbaumer, 1874. Stettin Ent. Ztg. 35: 55.
Type-species: Waageiiia sikki7nensis Kriechbaumer. Monotypic.
Chlorampulex Saussure, 1892. In Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, v. 20, p. 441.
Type-species: Sphex covipressus Fabricius. Desig. by Pate, 1937.
Ampulex canaliculata Say
Mass. to Ga., Ohio, Wis., Mo., Kans. Ecology: Nests in cavities in twigs and
in borings in wood. Prey: Parcoblatta virgiiiica (Brunner), P. sp., Ischnoptera sp.
Ampulex canalicnlatus Say, 1823. West. Quart. Rptr. 2: 76.
Rhinopsis Abbottii Westwood, 1844. Arcana Ent., v. 2, p. 68, pi. 65, fig. 5. ♀.
Ampulex pensylvanica Haldeman, 1849. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 4: 203.
Rhinopsis ynelanognathus Rohwer, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 41: 464. "♀"=♂.
Taxonomy: Schulz, 1911. Zool. Ann. 4: 149-152. —Bradley, 1934. Ent. News 45: 32-33.
—Evans, 1959. Ent. News 70: 57-58, 6 figs, (larva).
Biology: Williams, 1929. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 7: 318-329, 10 figs, (nest, prey, life history).
— Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 173-175, figs. 49-51 (nest, prey, life
history).
Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 99 (14): 50, pi. 22, figs. A-D (male
genitalia).
Ampulex ferruginea Bradley
Fla., Tex.
Ampulex {Rhinopsis) ferruginea Bradley, 1934. Ent. News 45: 274. ♂.
Taxonomy: Strandtmann, 1943. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 36: 46-48. ♀.
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