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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

Genus Bicyrtes

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited
large black & white wasp, possibly yellow jacket - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus crabronid 1 - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus wasp digging a hole - Bicyrtes - female Crabronidae? - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus sand wasp - Bicyrtes? - Bicyrtes Bicyrtes insidiatrix - Bicyrtes insidiatrix - male Bicyrtes insidiatrix - Bicyrtes insidiatrix - male Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus? - 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
Other Common Names
Sand Wasps (also applied to genus Bembix, which is closely related)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Bicyrtes Lepeletier 1845
Explanation of Names
Latin bis 'two' + Greek kyrtos 'humped' --refers to two projections from the middle of the body (1)
Numbers
8 spp. in our area(2), 27 spp. total(3)
Identification
key to spp. in(4)
Range
New World genus (Canada to Panama, West Indies); throughout the US and adjacent Canada(2)(3)
Habitat
Found at fields with flowers. Nests in sandy soil.
Life Cycle
Provision nests with true bugs, esp. Pentatomidae, also Coreidae), and sometimes Reduviidae; the nest is "mass-provisioned", i.e., stocked just once, then closed (1)(5)(6)
Works Cited
1.Wasp Farm
Howard Ensign Evans. 1963. Comstock Publishing.
2.Ascher J.S., Pickering J. (2017) Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)
3.Pulawski W.J. (2003-) Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato (Apoidea excluding Apidae)
4.A review of the genus Bicyrtes (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Nyssoninae, Bembicini)
Bohart R.M. 1996. Insecta Mundi 10: 139‒152.
5.Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America
Stephen A. Marshall. 2006. Firefly Books Ltd.
6.Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
Eric Eaton, Kenn Kaufman. 2006. Houghton Mifflin.
Contributed by Cotinis on 24 August, 2004 - 10:02pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 July, 2011 - 3:26pm

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