Anaxyelidae

Anaxyelidae

Taxobox
name = Cedar wood wasp
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Symphyta
superfamilia = Siricoidea
familia = Anaxyelidae
genus = "Syntexis"
species = "S. libocedrii"
binomial = "Syntexis libocedrii"
binomial_authority = Rohwer, 1915

The Anaxyelidae is a wood wasp family within the Symphyta, containing only a single living species, "Syntexis libocedrii", (also called the cedar wood wasp or incense-cedar wood wasp), though the family has an extensive Mesozoic fossil record; this species is thus a "living fossil". It has the remarkable behavior of ovipositing only in recently burnt incense-cedar ("Calocedrus"), redcedar ("Thuja") or juniper ("Juniperus"); the wood is often still smoldering when the wasp is laying its eggs, and the larvae develop in the wood. [cite conference | first =N.M. | last =Schiff | title =Insects associated with forest fires in Northern California and Oregon | booktitle =Entomological Society of America meeting | month =December | year =2000 | location =Montreal | accessdate =2007-05-07] It occurs from the mountains of central California to southern British Columbia, but is very rarely seen, except by firefighters.

References

External links

* [http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyento2004t00207/Symphyta/habitus/Anaxyelidae.pdf Photograph] pdf


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