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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Crabronini » Crabronina » Crossocerus » Subgenus Blepharipus (Crossocerus Subgenus Blepharipus) » Crossocerus nitidiventris

Species Crossocerus nitidiventris

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Square-headed Wasp - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Beewolf preying on Crane Fly? - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Beewolf preying on Crane Fly? - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Crabronidae Crossocerus nitidiventris - Crossocerus nitidiventris Family Crabronidae Crossocerus nitidiventris - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Family Crabronidae Crossocerus nitidiventris - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Family Crabronidae Crossocerus nitidiventris - Crossocerus nitidiventris - female Black and yellow - Crossocerus nitidiventris
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)
No Taxon (Apoidea sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps)
Family Crabronidae (Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies)
Subfamily Crabroninae (Square-headed Wasps)
Tribe Crabronini
Subtribe Crabronina
Genus Crossocerus
No Taxon (Subgenus Blepharipus)
Species nitidiventris (Crossocerus nitidiventris)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Crabro nitidiventris Fox, 1892. Ent. News 3:9
Explanation of Names
Epithet nitidiventris from Latin: nitidi- = shining, handsome; ventris = underside, belly...as in "venter". (1)
Size
11 - 12 mm
Identification
It is an unusual species in its genus because of the yellow markings on the abdomen (only present in one other species). What makes this this wasp distinctive is: yellow spots on smooth area of propodeum, yellow prepectus (that's the area just behind the pronotal lobe), rounded pronotal angles (excludes many other crabronines with similar markings), and yellow spots of similar size on terga 2-5.
Range
Quebec & Ontario, south to Georgia and west to Minnesota and Texas (2)
Food
Larvae provisioned by females with flies. Recorded prey species includes Nephrotoma virescens, a tipulid.
Adults take nectar at flowers.
See Also
C. maculipennis
Print References
Fox, W. J. (1895). The Crabroninae of Boreal America. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 22:129-226. (Full Text)
Leclercq, Jean (2000). Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens des Amériques du genre Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835(3). Notes fauniques de Gembloux, n°40, pp. 3-75 (Full Text)
Internet References
Images from the BOLD Systems web site
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
3.Hyménoptères Sphécides Crabroniens des Amériques du genre Crossocerus Lepeletier & Brullé, 1835.
Leclercq, Jean. 2000. Notes fauniques de Gembloux, n°40, pp. 3-75.
Contributed by Matthias Buck on 18 August, 2008 - 8:20am
Additional contributions by tom murray, Aaron Schusteff, v belov
Last updated 15 August, 2019 - 5:49pm

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