Timber beetles (Lymexylonidae)

[Hungarian Version]

Csóka, György and Kovács, Tibor (1999): Xilofág rovarok - Xylophagous insects. Hungarian Forest Research Institute. Erdészeti Turományos Intézet, Agroinform Kiadó, Budapest, 189 pp.


Narrow-, and relatively soft-bodied, cylindrical insects. The larvae are whitish, long, and feed inside dead wood. The family is represented by two species in Hungary. One species cultivates fungus in its tunnels and feeds on it, while the other one feeds on the wood tissues.

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