Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands Author Mifsud, David Author Farrugia, Lucia Author Shaw, Mark R. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-03-14 4567 1 47 60 journal article 28366 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3 08a63c3c-ef37-4a13-ad59-436532201c95 1175-5326 2593032 B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8 Apanteles carpatus (Say, 1836) Material examined: MALTA , Naxxar , 2. vi.2006, 1 ♀, from larva of Tineidae , MZ, DMC; Naxxar , 5.vi.2006 / 26. iii.2010, 3 ♀♀, emerged from larvae of Phyllonorycter messaniella Zeller ( Lepidoptera : Gracillariidae ), MZ, NMS; Naxxar , 10. ii.2010, 1 ♀, emerged from Tinea messalina , MZ, DMC; Mosta Valley, 20. iv.2007, 1 ♀, emerged from Tineidae , MZ, DMC; Ħad-Dingli , 1. v.2014, 1 ♀, emerged from Tinea messalina Robinson ( Lepidoptera : Tineidae ), MZ, DMC [parasitoids determined by Mark Shaw; hosts determined by Michael Zerafa]. Notes: This species was previously reported from Malta by Papp (2015) whose material was re-examined and his identification confirmed. Apanteles carpatus is a cosmopolitan koinobiont endoparasitoid that regularly attacks Lepidoptera of the family Tineidae ( Askew & Shaw, 1986 ; Yu et al ., 2012 ). The above record from Gracillariidae may represent a misidentified lepidopteran host.