It seems almost to unreal to be true, but according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund, a new species of wasps really do turn their victims into zombie-like creatures that remove their free will and then eat them alive with just one sting of their venom.

This particularly monstrous new wasp species is similar to something straight out of a horror novel. The details of which are gruesome.

The wasp has been named the Ampulex Dementor after the soul-sucking dementors created by J.K. Rowling in the "Harry Potter" series of novels and films. The name was voted on by visitors to the Berlin Natural History Museum fur Naturkunde (MfN).

"A. dementor hunts cockroaches, injecting a venom into the mass of neurons on its prey's belly that turns the roach into a passive zombie," the report states. "Cockroach wasp venom blocks receptors of the neurotransmitter octopamine, which is involved in the initiation of spontaneous movement. With this blocked, the cockroach is still capable of movement, but is unable to direct its own body. Once the cockroach has lost control, the wasp drags its stupefied prey by the antennae to a safe shelter to devour it."

The Dementor Wasp species was found in Thailand by discoverers Michael Ohl, Volker Lohrmann, Laura Breitkreuz, Lukas Kirschey and Stefanie Krause.

"I am convinced that events like this increase people's curiosity about local and global fauna and nature," discoverer Dr. Michael Ohl said.

According to data in a research article on PLoS One, as reported by The Washington Post, the wasp is only known to live in Thailand and authors of the study said it "belongs to an ant-mimicking group of species with attractive coloration and rather bizarre habitus and probably also behavior."

Other discoveries on the Asian continent, according to the W.W.F., include a Long-Fanged Bat in Laos and Vietnam, a Stealthy Wolf Snake in Cambodia, a Crocodile Newt in Myanmar and the world's 10,000th reptile species, a Bent-Toed Gecko in Laos.