Lifestyle: Unknown.

Larva: Details unknown.

Puparium: Details unknown.

Comments: Possibly a root feeder on Valeriana officinalis on which adults are frequently caught (Spencer, 1972: 68).

Hosts in Britain: Unknown.

Hosts elsewhere: Unknown.

Time of year - larvae: Unknown.

Time of year - adults: Unknown.

Distribution in Great Britain and Ireland: Widespread in Britain including Cambridgeshire (Chippenham Fen), Sutherland (Golspie), Inverness (Aviemore) (Spencer, 1972: 68), East Cornwall (NBN Gateway - N.B. includes Watsonian Vice Counties having publicly available records that fall within or overlap the vice county border at 10km resolution or better i.e. a record for a vice county may relate to an adjacent vice county - for included datasets see NBN Grid map below).

Also recorded in the Republic of Ireland: Co. Down and Co. Wicklow (Spencer, 1972: 68).

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Distribution elsewhere: Widespread in continental Europe including Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden (Spencer, 1976: 332), Germany (Spencer, 1976: 566). Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, French mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and The Netherlands (Martinez in Fauna Europaea).

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Parasitoids in Britain and elsewhere: Unknown.

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