See text Anaxyelidae is a family of incense cedar wood wasps in the order Hymenoptera.

It contains only one living genus, Syntexis, which has only a single species, native to Western North America.

[1][2][3] Fossils of the family extend back to the Middle Jurassic, belonging to over a dozen extinct genera, with a particularly high diversity during the Early Cretaceous.

Syntexis lay eggs in the sapwood of conifers, preferring recently burnt wood.

[4] These genera belong to the family Anaxyelidae: Taxonomy after[4] This sawfly-related article is a stub.