"cockroach wasp" meaning in English

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          "taxonomic": "Ampulex compressa",
          "word": "emerald cockroach wasp"
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          "ref": "2007, Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild",
          "text": "The emerald cockroach wasp, Ampulex compressa, uses a cockroach as a host by essentially taking over its mind.",
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          "ref": "2010, Lynas Murdoch, Four Years on St Helena, page 92",
          "text": "Equally fascinating was a video shot by Norman Hoyle, the school's Deputy Head, which showed a cockroach having been stung by a cockroach wasp (Ampulex Compressa) - though I seem to recall that the locals had a different name for it.",
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          "ref": "2011, Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan, editors, Singapore Biodiversity, page 268",
          "text": "Mainly found in the tropics, cockroach wasps have a metallic green body and measure up to 33 mm long.[…]When a prey is located, the female cockroach wasp stings the prey to paralyse it.",
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        "Any wasp of the family Ampulicidae, small sphecoid wasps that prey on cockroaches to lay their eggs on them."
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          "word": "ensign wasp"
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  "word": "cockroach wasp"
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