Meteorus

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Meteorus
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Meteorus rubens
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Braconidae
Subfamily: Euphorinae
Genus: Meteorus
Haliday, 1835

Meteorus is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae. [1] It comprises over 330 species worldwide. [2]

Meteorus wasps are distinguished from other braconid wasps by the presence of a second submarginal cell in the forewing and a petiolate first tergite. [3]

Selected species

References

  1. ↑ Aguirre, Helmuth; Ventura de Almeida, Luis Felipe; Shaw, Scott Richard; Sarmiento Monroy, Carlos Eduardo (23 March 2015). "An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae)". ZooKeys (489): 33–94. Bibcode:2015ZooK..489...33A. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.489.9258 . PMC   4395838 . PMID   25878531.
  2. ↑ Lee, Hye-Rin; An, Tae-Ho; Ku, Deok-Seo; Byun, Bong-Kyu (December 2017). "Four newly recorded species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Euphorinae) from Korea". Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 10 (4): 545–547. doi: 10.1016/j.japb.2017.10.001 .
  3. ↑ Shaw, Scott R. (1985). "A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)". Entomography. 3: 277–370.
  4. ↑ Fujie, Shunpei; Shimizu, So; Tone, Koichi; Matsuo, Kazunori; Maeto, Kaoru (2021). "Stars in subtropical Japan: a new gregarious Meteorus species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) constructs enigmatic star-shaped pendulous communal cocoons". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 85: 19–45. doi: 10.3897/jhr.86.71225 . hdl: 20.500.14094/0100476702 .
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