Family NOSODENDRIDAE
Compiler and date details
December 2008 - Checklist of names supplied by Dr A.A. Calder, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra; data entered by R. Johnson, for ABRS
Introduction
Two species are listed here for this family of 'Tree Wound' or 'Wounded-tree Beetles', although Lawrence and Britton (1991: 642) state that at least 3 species occur in eastern Australia'. Of their biology, the same authors comment that 'both larvae and adults live in slime fluxes which develop in tree wounds'.
General References
Lawrence, J.F. & Britton, E.B. 1991. Coleoptera (Beetles). pp. 543-683 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 2 pp. 543-1137