Cotesia vestalis (Haliday, 1834)

Material examined: MALTA, Naxxar, 26. vi.2012, 1 ♂, reared from a larva of a Plusiinae, MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa] .

Notes: The above cited material was incorrectly identified and cited as C. ruficrus (Haliday) by Papp (2015). Cotesia vestalis (= plutellae Kurdjumov) is a well-known koinobiont endoparasitoid of the plutellid, Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus) but parasitises several other low-feeding hosts including species of Noctuidae and Nymphalidae .