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Superfamily SIRICOIDEA
Family XIPHYDRIIDAE

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, con-
sequently arousing concern. The family is cosmopolitan with about 82 species in 22 genera; only
one genus is found in North America.

Revision: Rohwer, 1918. Ent. News 29: 105-111.

Taxonomy: Hedicke, 1938. Hym. Cat., pt. 7, 17 pp. (world catalog). —Maa, 1949. Notes d'Ent.
Chinoise (Mus. Heude) 13: 20-76 (world classification). —Benson, 1954. Roy. Ent. Soc.
London, Trans. 105: 151-158. (world classification).

Biology: Yuasa, 1922. 111. Biol. Monog. 7: 112-114. — Schaffner and Middleton, 1949. In
Craighead, U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 657, p. 587.

Subfamily XIPHYDRIINAE

Genus XIPHYDRIA Latreille

Xiphydria Latreille, 1802. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 3, p. 304.

Type-species: Ichneumon caynelus Linnaeus. Monotypic.
Hybonotus Klug, 1803. Monog. Siricum German., p. 8.

Type-species: Ichneumon camelus Linnaeus. Desig. by Rohwer, 1911.
XiphydraV.) Panzer, 1806. Krit. Rev. Insektenf. Deutschlands, v. 2, p. 56.
Xiphiura Fallen, 1813. Spec. Nov. Hym. Disp. Meth. p. 11.
XiphidriaV.) Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 373.
Xiphidion Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 374.




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Type-species: Xiphidion canadensis Provancher. Monotypic.
Hyponotus(\) Enslin, 1917. Deut. Ent. Ztschr., pp. 704, 706. Preocc.

Xiphydria abdominalis Say
Ont. to N. C. w. to Wis., Iowa. Host: Acer, Tilia americana.

Xipkydria abdommalis Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2 (App.), p. 311. ♀.
Xiphydria attenuata Norton, 1862. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 1: 214. ♂.
Xipkydria nifiventris Cresson, 1880. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 8: 34. ♀.

Taxonomy: Rohwer, 1921. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 59: 83.

Xiphydria canadensis Provancher
Que., Va.

Xiphydria catiadensis Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 373. ♀.

Xiphydria hicoriae Rohwer
Ont., Mass. to N. J., Pa. w. to Ohio, 111. Host: Carya, Ulmus.

Xiphydria hicoriae Rohwer, 1918. Ent. News 29: 109. ♀, ♂.

Biology: Blackman and Stage, 1924. Syracuse Univ., N. Y. State Col. Forestry, Tech. Pub. 17,
24: 155.

Xiphydria maculata Say
N. B., Ont. to Md., w. to Man., Minn., Iowa, Kans., Tex.; Calif. (?). Host: Acer,
Mains malus, Tilia americana(i).
Xiphydria maculata Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 221. ♂.
Xiphydria albicomis Harris, 1841. Rpt. Ins. Mass. Injurious to Veg., p. 392. ♀.

Biology: Harrington, 1884. Ont. Ent. Soc, Ann. Rpt. 14: 17, 40-42. —Rohwer, 1915. Ent. Soc
Wash., Proc. 17: 195 (mating habits).

Xiphydria mellipes Harris
N. S. to N. C. w. to N. W. T., B. C, Oreg., Mont., Minn., 111. Host: Ahms,
Fagus, Betula alleghaniensis, B. lenta, B. occidentalis.
Xiphydria mellipes Harris, 1841. Rpt. Ins. Mass. Injurious to Veg., p. 393. ♀.
Xiphydria walshii Westwood, 1874. Thesaurus Ent. Oxon., p. 113. ♂.
Xiphidion Cayiadensis Provancher, 1875. Nat. Canad. 7: 374. ♀. Preocc.
Xiphydria provancheri Cresson, 1880. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 8: 49. N. name for

Xiphydria canadensis Provancher


Biology: Rohwer, 1918. Ent. News 29: 110. — Yuasa, 1922. 111. Biol. Monog. 7: 113.

Xiphydria tibialis Say
N. S., Que. to Fla. w. to Wis., 111., Kans. Host: Acer, Betula nigra, Carpinus

caroliniana, Crataegus, Fagus, Malus, Qiiercus, Rhus typhina, Tilia americana, Ulmus.

Xiphydria tibialis Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2 (App.), p. 312. ♀.
Xiphydria erythrogaster Ashmead, 1903. Canad. Ent. 35: 233. ♂.
Xiphydria champlaini Rohwer, 1921. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 59: 84. ♀, ♂.

Biology: Packard, 1890. U. S. Dept. Agr., Ent. Comm. Rpt. 5: 483-484.


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