''Trypoxylon lactitarse'' is a species of square-headed wasp in the family
Crabronidae.
[ It is found in Central America, North America, and South America.][ 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. 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. This species apparently undergoes four larval moults ] until completing their development as pupae inside a black cocoon.
References
Crabronidae
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Insects described in 1867
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