Apanteles galleriae Wilkinson, 1932

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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944614
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5C-B308-689E-9EB2FBE28AC5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Apanteles galleriae Wilkinson, 1932
status

Treatment

Apanteles galleriae Wilkinson, 1932 View in CoL

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) .