Biosteres rhagoletis Richmond, 1915 is a synonym (Gahan 1919).
Diachasmimorpha mellea (Gahan, 1915)
In field experiments in Michigan, Feder observed lower rates of D. mellea parasitism in Rhagoletis pomonella that infested apples than in R. pomonella that infested hawthorne, their ancestral host fruit (Feder 1995). D. mellea females were unable to penetrate to the interior of the apples with their ovipositors, creating an enemy-free space for the fly larvae. Feder’s study confirmed the earlier observations by Porter (1928).
The species is well-studied, with detailed biologies by Lathrop and Newton (1933), and rates of parasitism by authors such as Monteith (1971, 1977).
There are no specimens currently determined for this OTU, or those specimens determined for this OTU are not yet mappable.