Eumenes coarctatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material examined.

Malta • 1♀, malaise trap, Fawwara, 1-8 May 2017, D. Mifsud leg. ; 1♀, Imselliet Valley, 4 Jul. 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 1♂, Imselliet Valley, 19 Jul. 2020, T. Cassar leg. ; 2♀♀, Mellieћa ( Rdum tal-Madonna), 28 Jun. 2020, T. Cassar leg.

Notes.

Schembri (1980) was the first to mention this species from Malta, recording both the nominate subspecies and E. c. lunulatus . However, the latter is actually regarded as a junior synonym of the nominate subspecies, which is widely distributed across Europe and reaches China in the East (Gusenleitner 1999). Females are known to collect the larvae of various Geometridae and Tortricidae as larval provisions.