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Genus of wasps
This article is about a genus of wasps. For the plant genus previously known as Meteorus, see
Barringtonia .
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
^ 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 .