Csóka, György and Kovács, Tibor (1999): Xilofág rovarok - Xylophagous insects. Hungarian Forest Research Institute. Erdészeti Turományos Intézet, Agroinform Kiadó, Budapest, 189 pp.
Small or medium sized beetles ranging from 0.7 mm to 15 mm in length. Rostrum is short, wide and flattened. The wing cases (elytra) do not cover the end of the abdomen. The body is stubby and often covered with hairy spots. More than 2,200 species belong to this family but only 18 of them are recorded from Hungary. Most species are saproxylic. The larvae develop in dead branches of a range of broad-leaved trees. The adults feed either on decaying plant tissues or fungi. In some species (Anthribus for example) both larvae and adults are predaceous, feeding on the eggs of scale insects. The adults can mainly be found on dead branches, stumps and trunks.
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