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Ampulex compressa

Emerald cockroach wasp

104

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1943

First collected

1990

Last collected

2026

Last seen alive

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Ampulex compressa, most mentions first.

  1. 2018

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Halona Valey, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Naval Magaziune Lualualei Annex, August 2017–October 2017

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 3 pages

  2. 2009

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2009: -10: Animals

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 2 pages

  3. 2007

  4. 2024

    A natural history survey of North Halawa Valley, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.. Bishop Museum Bulletins in Cultural and Environmental Sciences 5, 84 pp

    Polhemus, D.A., Howarth, F.G.& Miller, S.E. (editors) · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2021

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of HalonaValley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Kickham, Naval Magazine, Lualualei Annex, August–November 2020

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 2020

    Terrestrial Arthropod Survey of Hālona Valley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, July 2019–September 201

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  7. 2019

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Hālona Valley, Joint Pearl Harbor-Hickham, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, September 2018–December 2018

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  8. 2017

    Terrestrial arthropod survey of Halona Valley, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Naval Magazine Lualualei Annex, November 2016–February 2017

    Evenhuis, N.L., Arakaki, K.T. & Imada, C.T. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1940s1990s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1943 by Zimmerman, E. C. (Honolulu). The Museum last collected it in 1990; iNaturalist observers have seen it in the wild as recently as October 25, 2026.

Alive today

1,198 research-grade iNaturalist sightings in the wild since 2000. Most recent first.