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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)
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Sand wasp (Bembix americana?) - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Copyright © 2014 Jesse Christopherson

Sand wasp (Bembix americana?) - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Mount Rainier, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
July 22, 2014

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Sand wasp (Bembix americana?) - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus Sand wasp (Bembix americana?) - Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
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Contributed by Jesse Christopherson on 23 July, 2014 - 9:10am
Last updated 23 July, 2014 - 4:46pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 23 July, 2014 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

Given the stinkbug prey...
I'd be more inclined to go with Bicyrtes a stinkbug hunter, rather than Bembix, a fly hunter. But wait for an expert.
… metrioptera, 23 July, 2014 - 10:15am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
That makes a lot of sense. Looks a lot like Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus, given "the increasing distance between the pairs of tergal bands."
… Jesse Christopherson, 23 July, 2014 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

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