Description
Biology
A parasitoid. Known to emerge from host pupa.
The recorded hosts are Agriopis aurantiaria, Apanteles albipennis, Apanteles impurus, Bucculatrix thoracella, Bucculatrix ulmella, Choristoneura murinana, Coleophora laricella, Cosmopterix scribaiella, Cotesia sessilis and Erannis defoliaria.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic and Nearctic realms with records from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Accepted name
Gelis melanogaster (Thomson, 1884)
Original name
Hemiteles melanogaster
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Type
Zoologiska Institutionen, Lund, Sweden (female, lectotype)
