Lebensweise

Die Larven leben als Endoparasitoide in den Abdomen von Zikaden (Coe 1966). In Nordamerika wurden als Wirte auch adulte Schnaken (Tipulidae) nachgewiesen (Koenig & Young 2007). 

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