Beaver and Browne, 1978: A very polyphagous species. Gallery system resembles that of X. perforans. This species occasionally attacks healthy trees through bark wounds. Rabaglia et al. 2006: Five specimens were collected in a funnel trap in the spring of 2002 in Houston, TX away from ports or warehouses indicating that the species is most likely well established in the area. It has a wide distribution in the tropics and has been moved around through commerce. Hulcr and Cognato, 2012: Common in both disturbed and pristine areas. Commonly attracted to light (Browne, 1961). Browne, 1961: This species is not host selective. It is very common in open agricultural country as well as in dense forest, and the females often fly into houses in the early evenings or after dark, when they are attracted to light. The species has been found in unhealthy and dead trees, cut trees, and in charred stumps in new clearings but has not yet been observed attacking unseasoned sawn timber. It has frequently been found in rather small stems of about 8-25 cm in diameter and the lowest limit of the host size is about 4 cm.