Mirax rufilabris Haliday, 1833

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 : 57

Mirax rufilabris Haliday, 1833

Material examined: MALTA, Naxxar Gap, 20. xi.2008, 2 exx., emerged from larva of Ectoedemia euphorbiella ( Lepidoptera : Nepticulidae ), MZ, DMC; Naxxar Gap, 22–23. xii.2009, 2 exx., emerged from larva of Ectoedemia euphorbiella which was collected in iii.2009, MZ, NMS [parasitoids identified to generic level by Mark Shaw; host identified by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: This species was recorded from Malta by Papp (2015) but the material was not closely re-examined to confirm or otherwise his identification. It is a koinobiont endoparasitoid of Lepidoptera from the family Nepticulidae ( Shaw & Huddleston, 1991; Shaw & Askew, 1976).