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Discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2014, what is the second word in the literary-inspired scientific name of the Ampulex wasp (which is often known by this one word) whose venom blocks receptors of the neurotransmitter octopamine in cockroaches, effectively rendering them zombified so the wasp can drag them off and devour their flesh, and we assume, their souls as well.

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