Brief Summary
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fornecido por Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Biological notes have been recorded for only three North American species. All of them nest in abandoned borings of anobiid beetles in structural timber or logs. They prey upon Thysanoptera, usually immatures although occasionally adults are captured. Some extralimital species nest in twigs or decayed wood; in addition to Thysanoptera these species also prey upon immature Psyllidae, Coccidae and Aphididae. About a dozen undescribed species occur in the southwestern deserts.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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.
