Bicyrtes

Bicyrtes
Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Bembicidae
Subtribe: Bembicina
Genus: Bicyrtes
Lepeletier, 1845
Type species
Bicyrtes ventralis
(Say, 1824)
Species

~30 species; see text

Bicyrtes is a genus of large, often brightly coloured predatory sand wasps. Many species in this genus provision their nests with paralyzed Pentatomidae, while other species make use of Reduviidae and Coreidae instead.

This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment).

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ "Results for the species Bicyrtes ventralis (Say)". Hymenoptera Name Server. Ohio State University. Retrieved 17 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
  2. 1 2 "Genus Bicyrtes - BugGuide.Net". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2019-03-02.