Symmorphus bifasciatus
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Symmorphus bifasciatus is a hymenoptera from the family of the wasps (Vespidae). It is the most common type of the genus in Central Europe.
features
The animals reach a body length of 7 to 11 millimeters. Their body is yellow-black in color, with the third tergite often being black. The pleura of the mesonotum and the mesonotum are hairy short and are large and clearly dotted. The species can be confused with the other species of the genus Symmorphus .
Occurrence
The species occurs in Central and Northern Europe and in the south only in the mountains. It colonizes different habitats, also in the settlement area. The animals fly from early May to late September. The species is common in Central Europe.
Way of life
The nest is created in hollow stalks and reeds, in abandoned beetle holes in dead wood or in plant galls of straw flies of the genus Lipara . The populated tunnels are usually four to five millimeters in diameter. The larvae are supplied with larvae of leaf beetles of the genera Agelastica , Melasoma and Phyllodecta . The species is parasitized by the common golden wasp ( Chrysis ignita ) and Chrysis fulgida .
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literature
- Rolf Witt: Wasps. Observe, determine. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-89440-243-1 .
