Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
The North American barthi Vier. nests in dead wood and preys upon Membracidae, and erythropoda Roh. preys upon Cercopidae. Extralimital species have been reported as nesting in dead wood or in sandy or clay soil, and as preying upon Cicadellidae, Cercopidae and Membracidae.
- 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.
