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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Scolioidea » Scoliid Wasps (Scoliidae) » Scoliini » Scolia » Double-banded Scoliid Wasp (Scolia bicincta)

Species Scolia bicincta - Double-banded Scoliid Wasp

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited

black and white striped wasp - Scolia bicincta

Two-banded wasp - Scolia bicincta - 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)

Superfamily Scolioidea

Family Scoliidae (Scoliid Wasps)

Tribe Scoliini

Genus Scolia

Species bicincta (Double-banded Scoliid Wasp)

Explanation of Names

Scolia bicincta Fabricius, 1775

bicincta - Latin for 'two-girdled' (Based on Internet searches)

Size

21-25 mm (1); 15-20 mm(2)

Identification

Dark and hairy, medium-sized wasp. Two creamy white bands on abdomen. Perhaps this is mimicry of the Mason Wasp, Monobia quadridens:

Range

Eastern and central North America

Habitat

Fields with flowers

Season

Late Summer: July-September, sometimes October (North Carolina)

Food

Adults visit flowers.

Life Cycle

No doubt a parasitoid of beetle larvae, as are other members of this genus.

Remarks

North Carolina State University Entomology Collection has 125 pinned, including specimens from that state.

Print References

Bland, p. 380--gives size, range. (1)

Brimley, p. 439, gives season in North Carolina. (3)

Eaton and Kaufman, pp. 350-351 (4)

Salsbury, p. 265--photo (5)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the Insects Roger G. Bland, H.E. Jaques. 1978. WCB/McGraw-Hill.

2.	Grissell (2013): Scoliid Wasps of Florida

3.	Insects of North Carolina C.S. Brimley. 1938. North Carolina Department of Agriculture.

4.	Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America Eric Eaton, Kenn Kaufman. 2006. Houghton Mifflin.

5.	Insects in Kansas Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White. 2000. Kansas Dept. of Agriculture.

Contributed by Cotinis on 22 June, 2004 - 9:30pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, PaleoJon
Last updated 10 May, 2021 - 2:35am

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