Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Larvae of this family are wood borers in dead or dying angiosperm trees. Healthy trees and sound wood are not attacked. Adults sometimes emerge from firewood brought into homes, consequently arousing concern. The family is cosmopolitan with about 82 species in 22 genera; only one genus is found in North America.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
