Choeras semele (Nixon, 1965)

Material examined: MALTA, Naxxar, 10. iii.2008, 1 ♀, emerged from larvae of Cacoecimorpha pronubana (Hübner) ( Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), MZ, NMS [parasitoid identified by Mark Shaw; host identified by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: Choeras semele was previously reported from Malta by Papp (2015) whose identification is here confirmed. It is a koinobiont endoparasitoid recorded from several families of Lepidoptera larvae (Arthur & Mason, 1986; Yu et al., 2012).