Description
Biology
A solitary endoparasitoid.
The recorded hosts are Eupithecia indigata, Eupithecia tantillaria, Malacosoma neustria,
Neodiprion sertifer, Operophtera brumata, Thera britannica, Thera juniperata, Thera obeliscata and Thera variata.
The recorded parasitoids are
Bathythrix aerea and
Bathythrix thomsoni.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from Austria, China-Jilin, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Accepted name
Meteorus lionotus Thomson, 1895
Original name
Meteorus lionotus
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Synonyms
Type
Zoologiska Institutionen, Lund, Sweden (male, lectotype)
