Description
Biology
A gregarious koinobiont endoparasitoid.
The recorded hosts are
Cimbex femoratus,
Cimbex femoratus [Betula], Cimbex lutea, Craesus varus,
Diprion pini, Diprion simile,
Gilpinia hercyniae,
Gilpinia pallida, Homoeosoma nebulella, Nematus ribesii, Nematus salicis and Tenthredo femorata.
The only recorded parasitoid is
Mesochorus cimbicis.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from Austria, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia-Saratov Oblast, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Accepted name
Olesicampe clandestina (Holmgren, 1860)
Original name
Limneria clandestina
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
- Holocremna
- Holocremnus
- Limneria
- Olesicampe
Type
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Sektionen för Entomologi, Stockholm, Sweden (female, lectotype)
