Host plants were collected in Qinghai Province, China in late July 2013 and moved to the lab in Beijing to rear specimens of the leafminer moths and parasitoid wasps. Specialists
in the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified the plant. All parasitoid specimens were collected and stored in 95% alcohol. Then specimens were mounted on cards for morphological studies and deposited in the Insect Collection, the IZCAS, Beijing, China.