Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834)

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 : 56

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.5944624
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB5D-B309-689E-9DA7FE378C0E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834)
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Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834) View in CoL

Material examined: MALTA, Għajn Znuber, 22. ii.2006, 2 ♀♀, emerged from larva of Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: The above material was identified and cited by Papp (2015) as C. tibialis (Curtis) but it proved to be misidentified and should be attributed to C. ruficrus , which is a gregarious koinobiont endoparasitoid with a wide range of recorded hosts of (particularly) low-feeding Noctuidae . Thus, C. tibialis is here removed from the braconid fauna of Malta.