Apanteles carpatus (Say, 1836)

Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4567 (1), pp. 47-60 : 54-55

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.