Petiolate gaster and subtrapezoidal or almost quadrate second submarginal cell. Zele differs from Meteorus most obviously in the more even distribution of hairs on at least the apical halves of the gastral tergites (reduced more or less to a single row per tergite in Meteorus) and in the distal widening of the marginal cell of the hind wing.
7 UK species recognized.

Meteorus species.

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Koinobiont endoparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae, centred on Pyralidae, Noctuidae and Geometridae.

Widespread.

Unknown.