Bicyrtes

Short description: Genus of wasps

Bicyrtes

Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Scientific classification
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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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Genus Bicyrtes - BugGuide.Net". https://bugguide.net/node/view/6140.

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