Arthropods
🐝Emerald cockroach wasp
Ampulex compressa (Fabricius, 1781)
扁头泥蜂（学名：Ampulex compressa）属膜翅目细腰亚目长背泥蜂科，以控制蟑螂繁殖而知名。扁头泥蜂身黑而长，表面带有绿宝石般的金属光泽，体型不大。
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Also called
Emerald cocroach wasp
Conservation status
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classInsecta
- ›orderHymenoptera
- ›familyAmpulicidae
- ›genusAmpulex
- ›speciesAmpulex compressa
Full lineage
- classInsects · Insecta
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- tribeAmpulicini
- genusAmpulex
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumHexapoda
- classInsects · Insecta
- subclassPterygota
- orderAnts, bees & wasps · Hymenoptera
- superfamilyApoidea
- familyAmpulicidae
- tribeAmpulicini
- genusAmpulex
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In other languages
绿长背泥蜂 (zh), ékes ősdarázs (hu), Juwelwespe (de), Ampulex compressa (es), Ampulex compressa (fi), אמפולקס קומפרסה (he) … and 17 more languages
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