Bicyrtes
Genus of wasps
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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.[2]
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| Bicyrtes | |
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| Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Bembicidae |
| Subtribe: | Bembicina |
| Genus: | Bicyrtes Lepeletier, 1845 |
| Type species | |
| Bicyrtes ventralis | |
| Species | |
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~30 species; see text | |
This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment).[2]
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)
