Bembecinus tridens
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Bembecinus tridens is a hymenoptera fromthe Crabronidae family .
features
The animals reach a body length of 7 to 11 millimeters. Their body is black and yellow in color. The yellow band on the first tergite of the abdomen is almost always continuous, which distinguishes the species of Bembecinus hungaricus , the band of which is interrupted. The cubital cell 2 is sessile.
Occurrence
The species occurs in North Africa, South and Central Europe and east to Central Asia. The northern limit of their distribution runs through northern Germany. It populates areas of drift sand and silver grass fields . The animals fly in one generation from early June to late August. The species is very rare in Central Europe.
Way of life
The females of BEMBECINUS TRIDENS operate parental care and have a similar lifestyle as the gyroscope wasp ( bembiX rostrata ). The egg is deposited in the cell and only then is the food, small species of cicada, introduced. The species is parasitized by Hedychrum chalybaeum .
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literature
- Rolf Witt: Wasps. Observe, determine. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89440-243-1 .