Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Members of this family for which host associations are known are mainly parasites of Diptera, and especially of the Cecidomyiidae, but some are important parasites of mealybugs and whiteflies. Occasional species have been reared from wasp larvae of the subfamily Crabroninae, from hymenopterous galls, and from eggs of certain Coleoptera.
- 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.
