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Slender Wood Borer Wasp

Trypoxylon attenuatum

Classification

Class
Insecta

Trypoxylon is a genus of wasps in the family Crabronidae. All Trypoxylon species that have been studied so far are active hunters of spiders, which they paralyse with a venomous sting, to provide as food to their developing larvae. Depending on the species, they will either construct their own nest from mud or find cavities that already exist.

Distribution

Paul van de Laak · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 74Germany · 5Netherlands · 1