Uncommon. Flies mostly late April through September. Adults are found in forest and field habitats.
The only member of its genus in North America. Despite variability in the abdominal pattern (the area between the yellow bands can be entirely black or mostly orange), this species can be readily identified from photos. The vivid yellow stripes on the side of the scutum and the yellow-banded abdomen are distinctive. This may be a complex of two sympatric species. (Skevington, 2019)
Larvae are unknown, but larvae of other members of the genus live in ant nests, where they feed on root aphids tended by ants of the genus Lasius (Skevington, 2019).
There are 21 records in the project database.
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