{{Short description|Genus of wasps}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sand Wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus), FWG.jpg | image_caption = ''Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus'' | taxon = Bicyrtes | authority = Lepeletier, 1845 | type_species = ''Bicyrtes ventralis'' | type_species_authority = (Say, 1824)<ref name = HNS>{{cite web | url = http://osuc.biosci.ohio-state.edu/hymDB/nomenclator.name_entry?text_entry=Bicyrtes+ventralis | title = Results for the species ''Bicyrtes ventralis'' (Say) | access-date = 17 May 2017 | publisher = Ohio State University | work = Hymenoptera Name Server }}{{Dead link|date=October 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ~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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/6140|title=Genus Bicyrtes - BugGuide.Net|website=bugguide.net|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>
This genus gets its name ("two-humped") from the two noticeable projections arising from the rear of the mesosoma (middle segment).<ref name=":0" />
== Selected species ==
* ''Bicyrtes affinis'' <small>(Cameron, 1897)</small> * ''Bicyrtes capnopterus'' <small>(Handlirsch, 1889)</small> * ''Bicyrtes diodontus'' <small>(Handlirsch, 1889)</small> * ''Bicyrtes discisus'' <small>(Taschenberg, 1870)</small> * ''Bicyrtes fodiens'' <small>(Handlirsch, 1889)</small> * ''Bicyrtes insidiatrix'' (<small>Handlirsch, 1889)</small> * ''Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus'' <small>(Say, 1824)</small> * ''Bicyrtes spinosus'' <small>(Fabricius, 1794)</small> * ''Bicyrtes variegatus'' <small>(Olivier, 1789)</small> * ''Bicyrtes viduatus'' <small>(Handlirsch, 1889)</small> * ''Bicyrtes ventralis'' <small>(Say, 1824)</small>
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Category:Bembicidae Category:Apoidea genera Category:Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier
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