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
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47
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journal article
28366
10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3
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1175-5326
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Cotesia ruficrus
(Haliday, 1834)
Material examined:
MALTA
, Għajn Znuber, 22.
ii.2006,
2
♀♀, emerged from larva of
Mythimna unipuncta
(Haworth)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Noctuidae
), MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa].
Notes:
The above material was identified and cited by
Papp (2015)
as
C. tibialis
(Curtis)
but it proved to be misidentified and should be attributed to
C. ruficrus
, which is a gregarious koinobiont endoparasitoid with a wide range of recorded hosts of (particularly) low-feeding
Noctuidae
. Thus,
C. tibialis
is here removed from the braconid fauna of
Malta
.