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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) » Bembicinae » Sand Wasps (Bembicini) » Bembicina » Bicyrtes » Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus)

Species Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus - Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References · Works Cited
'Who ' please. - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus, Dog fighting over a stink bug - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes Murder Mystery - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Long Zebra Hornet - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Sand Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Sphecid Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus - female
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 Bembicinae
Tribe Bembicini (Sand Wasps)
Subtribe Bembicina
Genus Bicyrtes
Species quadrifasciatus (Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp)
Other Common Names
Four-banded Stink Bug Hunter Wasp
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus (Say 1824)
Monedula sallei Guérin-Méneville, 1844
Monedula quadrifasciata Say, 1824
Explanation of Names
QUADRIFASCIATUS = from the Latin quadri or quattuor (four) + fasciatus (banded) - This refers to the four white bands on the sides of the abdomen of the females. The males may have five of these markings.
Size
17-19 mm(1)
Identification
The increasing distance between the pairs of tergal bands posterad is diagnostic against other species in the genus.(1)
Range
e. NA (2)
Season
Jun-Oct in NC(3)
Food
Adults may be seen foraging on flowers.
The females provision the nests with paralyzed True Bugs, Suborder Heteroptera. (for the larvae)
Life Cycle
Females with prey:
Internet References
Discover Life
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
Works Cited
1.A review of the genus Bicyrtes (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Nyssoninae, Bembicini)
Bohart R.M. 1996. Insecta Mundi 10: 139‒152.
2.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2024) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
3.Insects of North Carolina
C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 2 February, 2006 - 3:02pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, tom murray, John S. Ascher, v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 21 January, 2025 - 3:10am

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