Ascogaster, Wesmael, 1835

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 : 53

Ascogaster sp.

Material examined: MALTA, Girgenti, 25. vii.2016, 1 ex., emerged from caper buds infested with Tephritidae and probably Tortricidae though none was reared TC, DMC [parasitoid determined to generic level by Mark Shaw; host determination not made].

Notes: This genus is here recorded for the first time from the Maltese Islands. The host would probably have been a tortricid, of which Ascogaster species are egg-larval koinobiont endoparasitoids.