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Clytus arietis, the wasp beetle, is a wasp-mimicking longhorn beetle species in the genus Clytus. [1] [2] Physical description. It reaches 9–18 millimetres (0.35 ...
Wasp beetle Clytus arietis is a Batesian mimic of wasps. Bee-eaters such as Merops apiaster specialise in feeding on bees and wasps. Relationship with humans.
Clytus ambigenus Chevrolat, 1882; Clytus angustefasciatus Pic, 1943; Clytus arietis (Linnaeus, 1758); Clytus arietoides Reitter, 1900; Clytus auripilis Bates, 1884 ...
Antennae and legs are red-yellow, but the hind legs are darker. The elytrae are crossed by light yellow stripes, as this beetle imitates, for defensive purposes, like other species of the genus Clytus, the chromatic variety of wasps. Bicolor tibiae distinguish Clytus rhamni bellieri subspecies. This species is very similar to Clytus arietis. [5]
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Like most of the Chrysidoidea, the Bethylidae are stinging Hymenoptera and most are parasitoids. Some of them, however, have developed their parasitoidal biology along predatory lines and they sting and malaxate their victims into paralysis.
The adults grow up to 13–20 millimetres (0.51–0.79 in). The head and pronotum are dark-brown, while elytra are yellowish, with black dots and stripes, rough imitations of wasps, which probably gives them some protection from birds. [3]