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

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

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References

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  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. 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.