Bicyrtes

Bicyrtes
Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Crabronidae
Subtribe:	Bembicina
Genus:	Bicyrtes Lepeletier, 1845
Type species
Bicyrtes ventralis
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.^[1]

This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment).^[1]

Selected species

• Bicyrtes affinis (Cameron, 1897)
• Bicyrtes capnopterus (Handlirsch, 1889)
• Bicyrtes diodontus (Handlirsch, 1889)
• Bicyrtes discisus (Taschenberg, 1870)
• Bicyrtes fodiens (Handlirsch, 1889)
• Bicyrtes insidiatrix (Handlirsch, 1889)
• Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus (Say, 1824)
• Bicyrtes spinosus (Fabricius, 1794)
• Bicyrtes variegatus (Olivier, 1789)
• Bicyrtes viduatus (Handlirsch, 1889)
• Bicyrtes ventralis (Say, 1824)

References

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