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Ampulex compressa (Fabricius)
Sphex compressa Fabricius, 1782 [1781]:445–446 [Malabar; type in London].
Ampulex compressa (Fabricius).—Motschulsky, 1863:24 [Ceylon].—Kohl, 1893:474, 491, figs. 11, 22, 71 [Oriental and Ethiopian regions].—Bingham, 1897:254–255 [India, Burma, Ceylon to Africa and China].—Dalla Torre, 1897:373–374.—Williams, 1942:221–233, 20 figs, [biology].—Bohart and Menke, 1976:77 [Ethiopian and Oriental regions, Australia, East Indies, New Caledonia, Cook, Midway, Hawaii, St. Helena, Mauritius, Réunion, Chagos Archipelago, Seychelles].
Ampulex sinensis Saussure, 1867:43, pl. 2: fig. 25 [; China; type in Vienna].
Chlorampulex striolata Saussure, 1892:443, 446 [ Zanzibar; type in Paris].—Kohl, 1893:502–503.—Dalla Torre, 1897:377.
- bibliographic citation
- Krombein, Karl V. 1979. "Biosystematic Studies of Ceylonese Wasps, V: A Monograph of the Ampulicidae (Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.298
