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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

Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus? - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus - male

Sand Wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus - female

Four-banded stink bug wasp - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus

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. (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) R.M. Bohart. 1996. Insecta Mundi, 10:139-152.

2.	Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) 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 10 June, 2021 - 8:46pm

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