Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Genus Xiphydria

Wasp  - Xiphydria maculata Xiphydriid Wood Wasp - Xiphydria tibialis wood wasp - Xiphydria maculata Is this a wasp? - Xiphydria maculata Xiphydria maculata (?) - Xiphydria maculata - female wood wasp - Xiphydria tibialis Wood Wasp (?) - Xiphydria Maybe Woodwasp? - Xiphydria
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Xiphydriidae (Xiphydriid Wood Wasps)
Genus Xiphydria
Explanation of Names
Xiphydria Latreille, 1802
Numbers
9 spp. in our area,(1) ~40 total
Identification
Our species are keyed by Smith (1976).(2)
Remarks
Several wasps from the Evaniidae family are parasitic on this genus: Aulacus burquei, A. digitalis, A. lovei, and A. pallipes.(3)

Aulacus burquei
Works Cited
1.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
2.The Xiphydriid Woodwasps of North America (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae)
David R. Smith . 1976. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Vol. 102, No. 2, pp. 101-131 .
3.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.