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Species Pseudodynerus quadrisectus
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea (Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets)
Family Vespidae (Yellowjackets, Paper Wasps, and Hornets; Potter, Mason and Pollen Wasps)
Subfamily Eumeninae (Potter and Mason Wasps)
Genus Pseudodynerus
Species quadrisectus (Pseudodynerus quadrisectus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes Pseudodynerus quadrisectus ( Say, 1837) Size circa 15 mm length; forewing 12-16 mm (female), 10-13 mm (male) Identification Note two white bands on abdomen, very short petiole between thorax and abdomen, not long, as in Eumenes. Range Eastern United States: New Jersey south to Florida; west to Ohio, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas. Subspecies aztecus is found in Mexico, south to Costa Rica. Habitat deciduous forests, etc. Season June-September (North Carolina) Food Found on taking nectar from flowers. Life Cycle Nests in borings made in wood, preys on caterpillars. See Also Mason wasp, Monobia quadridens--larger, with only one white band on abdomen, near base
Print References Brimley, p. 440--lists for North Carolina as Ancistrocerus quadrisectus (1)
Eaton and Kaufman, pp. 358-359 (2)
Bequaert, Joseph, 1941. Pseudodynerus, a neotropical complex of eumenine wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). American Museum novitates ; 1106 ( PDF) Internet References Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the northeastern Nearctic region-- Pseudodynerus quadrisectus (3)
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