Our work reports on the establishment of the neotropical parasitoid Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris Marsh (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for the first time in Europe. This larval parasitoid has been recorded in samples collected in commercial tomato crops in Catalonia (North-eastern Spain) from 2016 to the present. Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris is considered to be a new biocontrol agent among the resident parasitoid complex of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae).

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Denis, Carmen, Riudavets, Jordi, Alomar, Oscar, Agustí, Nuria, Gonzalez‐Valero, Helena, Cubí, Martina, … Arnó, Judit. (2022). Naturalized Dolichogenidea gelechiidivoris complement the resident parasitoid complex of Tuta absoluta in North‐eastern Spain. Journal of Applied Entomology (Vol. 146, pp. 461–464). doi:10.1111/jen.12994