Meteorus
Appearance
Meteorus | |
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Meteorus rubens | |
Scientific classification | |
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
[edit]- Meteorus andreae Aguirrer & Shaw, 2011
- Meteorus gyrator Thunberg, 1922
- Meteorus laphygmae Viereck 1913
- Meteorus pulchricornis Wesmael, 1835
- Meteorus rubens Nees, 1811
- Meteorus stellatus Fujie et al., 2021[4]
- Meteorus trachynotus Viereck, 1912
References
[edit]- ^ 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.489.9258. PMC 4395838. PMID 25878531.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Shaw, Scott R. (1985). "A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)". Entomography. 3: 277–370.
- ^ 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.