Description
Biology
A parasitoid. Known to emerge from host cocoon.
The recorded hosts are Agonopterix umbellana, Apanteles murinanae, Bucculatrix crataegi, Bucculatrix ulmella, Bucculatrix ulmifoliae, Coleophora, Coleophora laricella,
Oncophanes minutus, Sparganothis pilleriana, Yponomeuta evonymella and Yponomeuta padella.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Serbia & Montenegro, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Accepted name
Gelis albipalpus (Thomson, 1884)
Original name
Hemiteles albipalpus
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Synonyms
Type
Zoologiska Institutionen, Lund, Sweden (female, lectotype)
