Description
Biology
A solitary koinobiont endoparasitoid. Known to emerge from adult or from host larva/nymph.
The recorded hosts are Ceutorhynchus quadridens, Cryphalus abietis, Cryphalus fulvus, Cryphalus piceae, Pityogenes bidentatus, Pityogenes bistridentatus, Pityogenes chalcographus, Pityogenes conjunctus, Pityogenes irkutensis, Pityogenes quadridens, Pityokteines spinidens, Pityokteines vorontzovi, Pityophthorus henscheli and Polygraphus poligraphus.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Russia-Krasnoyarsk Kray, Russia-Primor'ye Kray, Russia-Sakhalin Oblast, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
