Small (3-4mm) wasps, wholly black or partly reddish, with characteristic wing venation. Four known UK species.

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Solitary koinobiont endoparasitoids of the larvae of Nepticulidae (Lepidoptera).

Unknown.

Unknown.

Shaw, M.R. & Huddleston, T. (1991) Classification and Biology of Braconid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 7, Part 11. London: R. Entomol. Soc.

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van Achterberg, C. (1990). Illustrated key to the subfamilies of the Holarctic Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). Zoologische Mededelingen, 64(1), 1-20.