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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae » Crabronidae » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Bembicina » Bicyrtes » Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus

Species Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Print References · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Crabronidae
Subfamily Bembicinae
Tribe Bembicini (Sand Wasps)
Subtribe Bembicina
Genus Bicyrtes
Species quadrifasciatus (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus (Say, 1824). Synonyms:
Bicyrtes quadrifasciata (spelling/gender)
Size
17-19 mm (Bohart, 1996) (1)
Identification
Bohart (1996) comments on identification of this species:
In a long series of B. quadrifasciata in the Bohart Museum collection (n=110) the increasing distance between the pairs of tergal bands posterad (sic?) are an easy means of identification, especially among North American species.
Range
Eastern North America
Season
Summer to fall. June-October (North Carolina) (2)
Print References
Bohart, 1996. A review of the genus Bicyrtes. Insecta Mundi 10: 139-152 (PDF)
Brimley, p. 449 (2)
Lutz, p. 421, 3rd edition--gives lengths (1)
Works Cited
1.Field Book of Insects of the United States and Canada, Aiming to Answer Common Questions,
By Frank Eugene Lutz
2.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 2 February, 2006 - 3:02pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, tom murray, John S. Ascher
Last updated 5 August, 2009 - 8:39am

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