Fungi ingrowing dead wood are essential for xylophagous insects (e.g. woodboring beetles). They are primarily endoparasitoids of wood wasps (Xiphydriidae) and xylophagous beetles (Cerambycidae and Buprestidae). Brentidae is a cosmopolitan family of primarily xylophagous beetles also known as straight-snouted weevils. The larvae are xylophagous and attack wood or roots of broad-leaf trees. Larvae are xylophagous and they are usually found inside decaying trunks. They are xylophagous and are associated with dead or dying wood.