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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Apanteles galleriae
Wilkinson, 1932
Material examined:
MALTA
,
Żejtun
, 11.
vii.2016,
1
♂, from larva of
Galleria melonella
(Linnaeus)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
), LF, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa].
Notes:
This species was previously reported from
Malta
by
Papp (2015)
from the same lepidopteran host. It is a cosmopolitan, koinobiont, endoparasitoid of
Galleria mellonella
(Linnaeus)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
),
Achroia grisella
(Fabricius)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
) and
A. innotata
(Walker) (
Watanabe, 1987
)
.