Trypoxylon lactitarse

Trypoxylon lactitarse is a species of square-headed wasp in the family Crabronidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in Central America, North America, and South America.[1] These are fairly common harmless black wasps that build muddy elongate nests on the external walls of houses and low-story apartments. Their characteristic nests resemble pan-flutes in shape, and are provisioned with spiders captured and paralysed by the mother wasp.[5] It lays an egg within each elongate nest cell amongst the invalid spiders, from which a larva will hatch and slowly consume all spiders as food.[6] This species apparently undergoes four larval moults [7] until completing their development as pupae inside a black cocoon.

Trypoxylon lactitarse
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Crabronidae
Tribe: Trypoxylini
Genus: Trypoxylon
Species:
T. lactitarse
Binomial name
Trypoxylon lactitarse
de Saussure, 1867
Synonyms[1]
  • Trypoxylon albopilosum Provancher, 1888
  • Trypoxylon albopilosum planoense Cameron, 1889
  • Trypoxylon cinereum W. Fox, 1891
  • Trypoxylon striatum Rohwer, 1909

References
  1. "Trypoxylon lactitarse Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  2. "Trypoxylon lactitarse species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  3. "Trypoxylon lactitarse". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  4. "Trypoxylon lactitarse Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
  5. Buschini, Mlt.; Borba, Na.; Brescovit, Ad. (August 2008). "Patterns of prey selection of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) lactitarse Saussure (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in southern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 68 (3): 519–528. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842008000300008. ISSN 1519-6984. PMID 18833472.
  6. Buschini, M. L. T.; Niesing, F.; Wolff, L. L. (August 2006). "Nesting biology of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) lactitarse Saussure (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) in trap-nests in Southern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 66 (3): 919–929. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842006000500018. ISSN 1519-6984. PMID 17119840.
  7. FOX, EDUARDO GONÇALVES PATERSON; SOLIS, DANIEL RUSS; ROSSI, MÔNICA LANZONI; FEITOSA, RODRIGO MACHADO; BRESCOVIT, ANTONIO DOMINGOS (2012-03-30). "The larval morphology and nest habits of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) rogenhoferi Kohl 1884 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3251 (1): 47. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3251.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.


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