Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Members of this Holarctic genus parasitize larvae of Xyela in the staminate cones of Pinus. Oviposition occurs at about the time when the Xyela larval development is nearing completion, which apparently just precedes the time the host pine sheds its pollen. The eggs of Idiogramma hatch after the host has dropped to the ground and formed its earthen pupal cell.
- 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.
