HYMENOPTERA :: Ampulicidae :: Ampulicinae :: Ampulex

Ampulex cuprea Smith, 1856

Appearance

Body 9 mm long, metallic green. Carina on face complete, arched, and produced at the apex. Head deeply rugose and punctate. Prothorax transversely striated dorsally,  roughly punctured laterally.  Mesothorax has central carina which terminates before the apex. Wings hyaline. First recurrent vein is obscure.  Abdomen shining, with very fine and sparse punctures.

Biology

Unknown

Distribution

Hong Kong

Sources

Bohart R.M. & Menke R. S. 1976. Reply to Dr Krombein’s comment on our proposal to suppress Euplilis Risso, 1826. Z.N. (S.) 2056. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 33: 68.

Barthélémy C & Guénard B. 2025. An annotated and illustrated checklist of Hong Kong aculeate wasps (Hymenoptera: Apoid wasps; Pompilioidea; Scolioidea; Thynnoidea; Tiphioidea; Vespoidea; Chrysidoidea). Insecta Mundi 1115: 1–230.

Hua L. 2006. Superfamily Apoidea (Sphecoidea), pp. 274-299 in L. Hua. List of Chinese insects. Vol. IV. Sun-Yat-sen University Press, Guangzhou. 539 pp.

Kohl F.F. 1893. Über Ampulex Jur. (s. l.) und die damit enger verwandten Hymenopteren-Gattungen. Annalen des k.k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 8: 455-516 

Pulawski, W.J. CATALOG OF WORLD SPHECIDAE sensu lato (= Apoidea excluding bees), California Academy of Sciences

Smith F. 1856. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Sphegidae, Larridae and Crabronidae. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 207-497.

Smith F. 1871. A catalogue of the aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago, with introductory remarks by A.R. Wallace. The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology 11: 285-415.

von Dalla Torre  K.W. 1897. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus, Volumen VIII:

Fossores (Sphegidae). Guilelmi Engelmann, Lipsiae [= Leipzig]. 749 pp.