Male

Female

Length: 7-9mm

Egg	Larva	Pupa	Adult
?	?	?	May - July (Earliest: 2.4)

Biotopes:	Wet Meadows	Pond Edge	Stream Banks
Food: (Larva)	Equisetum fluviatile	Equisetum palustre
Parasitoids:	Tryphon brunniventris Larva
Other Possible Parasitoids:	Many Ichneumonidae Larvae	Several Braconidae Larvae	Several Tachinidae Larvae

Plant Parasites of Europe: Dolerus cothurnatus

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