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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Vespoidea » Vespidae » Potter and Mason Wasps (Eumeninae) » Pseudodynerus » Pseudodynerus quadrisectus

Species Pseudodynerus quadrisectus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Wasp ID Request - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus - male Mason Wasp - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus Pseudodynerus quadrisectus Pseudodynerus quadrisectus wasp - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus Black and White Wasp - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus Potter-Mason Wasp - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus Black and Yellow Banded Wasp - Pseudodynerus quadrisectus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps)
Superfamily Vespoidea
Family Vespidae
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 and nearby open areas
Season
June-September (North Carolina)
Food
Often found 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)
Wasps of Breckenridge Field Laboratory--Texas
Washington DC biodiversity
Works Cited
1.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
2.Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
Eric Eaton, Kenn Kaufman. 2006. Houghton Mifflin.
3.Identification Atlas of the Vespidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the Northeastern Nearctic Region
Matthias Buck, Stephen A. Marshall, and David K. B. Cheung. 2008. Biological Survey of Canada [Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification].
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 20 June, 2005 - 9:57am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Matthias Buck, Bbarnd
Last updated 16 May, 2015 - 10:04am

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