Homolobus (Phylacter) meridionalis van Achterberg, 1979

Material examined: MALTA, Buskett, Verdala Palace, 1.xii.2016 –30. i.2017, 1 ♀, in Malaise trap, DM, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw] .

Notes: Even though this koinobiont endoparasitoid was not reared from a lepidopteran host, it is being included for two reasons: (i) it represents a new record for the Maltese Islands and (ii) because its only known host is a lepidopteran. This species was recorded as a parasitoid of the noctuid, Dryobota labecula (Esper, 1788) feeding in spring on Quercus in southern France, but it is probably a bivoltine species and likely to parasitize low-feeding noctuids in its overwintering generation (Shaw, 2015).