Bicyrtes

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Bicyrtes
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Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Bembicidae
Subtribe: Bembicina
Genus: Bicyrtes
Lepeletier, 1845
Type species
Bicyrtes ventralis
(Say, 1824)[1]
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.[2]

This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment).[2]

Selected species

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References

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