Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Members of this subfamily are associated with ferns, grasses, and sedges. The Selandriinae are poorly represented in the northern regions of the world, but it is one of the dominant groups in the tropics; for example, nearly 200 species have been described from the Americas south of the United States.
- 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.
