Syzeuctus tigris Seyrig, 1926

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 : 50

Syzeuctus tigris Seyrig, 1926

Material examined: MALTA, Sliema, 25. vii.2016, 1 ♀, emerged from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides with larvae of Eublemma parva (Hübner) ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae), LF, NMS; Sliema, 13. ix.2016, 1 ♂ & 1♀, emerged from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides with Eublemma parva , LF, NMS; Għar Lapsi, 2. x.2016, 1 ♂, emerged from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides with Eublemma parva , LF, NMS. GOZO, Ramla l-Ħamra, 8. vii.2016, 1 ♂, emerged from flowers of Limbarda crithmoides with larvae of Eublemma parva , LF, NMS [parasitoids determined only to generic level by Mark Shaw and species was determined by David Mifsud; hosts determined by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: This species was first recorded in the Maltese Islands by Schembri (1992) without host data. It is a koinobiont endoparasitoid of concealed Lepidoptera larvae.