Meteorus

Meteorus
	Meteorus rubens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animals
Type of:	Arthropods
Grade:	Insects
Squad:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Belly-bellied
Family:	Braconids
Subfamily:	Euphorinae
Gender:	Meteorus
Latin name
	Meteorus Haliday , 1835

Meteorus (lat.) - a genus of parasitic riders from the family Braconidae . More than 300 species ^[1] .

Content

Description

They are found everywhere, more than 300 species are known (75 species in the Neotropics , about 60 in Russia ). Body length 2-8 mm. Endoparasitoids of butterfly caterpillars and beetle larvae. In South America, the main hosts are butterflies of the families Erebidae ( Arctiinae ), Noctuidae, and Pyralidae ^[1] . Trochantellus (2nd trochanter) is separated from the thigh. The first tergite is stalked. In the front wing, the 2nd radio-medial vein is developed ^[2] . A species of Meteorus caspitator parasitizes on an indoor moth . Sometimes it stands out as a separate subfamily Meteorinae ^[3] , Meteorus versicolor - parasites of willow burlus ^[4] ^[2] .

M. albistigma , M. carolae , M. eurysaccavorus , M. fallacavus , M. flavistigma , M. haimowitzi , M. magnoculus , M. martinezi , M. microcavus , M. noctuivorus , M. orion .
Other species

Notes

↑ ¹ ² Helmuth Aguirre, Luis Felipe Ventura de Almeida, Scott Richard Shaw, Carlos Eduardo Sarmiento Monroy. An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) (Eng.) // ZooKeys: Journal. - Sofia: Pensoft Publishers, 2015 .-- Vol. 489. - P. 33-94. - ISSN 1313-2970 . doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.489.9258
↑ ¹ ² Belokobylsky S.A., Tobias V.I. 2007. Sem. Braconidae - Braconids. 9. Subfamily. Alysiinae. A group of genera close to Aspilota // In the book: Key to insects of the Far East of Russia. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka. T. 4, part 4. S.198-222
↑ A.K. Zagulyaev. 3 // Fauna of the USSR. Insects: Lepidoptera. Real moths (Tineidae), a subfamily of Tineinae / chapters. ed. Director of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Acad. E.N. Pavlovsky . - 3. - Moscow-Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960. - V. IV. - S. 146-169. - 266 p. - (New Series, No. 78). - 2000 copies.
↑ Tobias V.I. (ed. And author or first author). Order Hymenoptera - Hymenoptera. Family Braconidae - Braconids. 1986. Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. 3. The fourth part. 500 s (p. 184-198);

Literature

Aguirre H., Sarmiento CE, Shaw SR (2011). Taxonomic revision and morphometric analysis of Meteorus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Meteorinae) from Colombia. - Zootaxa 2938: 1–68.
Huddleston T. (1980). A revision of the western Palaeartic species of the genus Meteorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 41: 1–58.
Jones GZ, Shaw SR (2012). Ten new species of Meteorus (Braconidae: Hymenoptera) from Ecuador reared at the Yanayacu Biological Center for Creative Studies. - Zootaxa 3547: 1-23.

Links

Meteorus bugguide.net (English) (Retrieved March 25, 2015)

[Aguirre2015-1] ¹ ² Helmuth Aguirre, Luis Felipe Ventura de Almeida, Scott Richard Shaw, Carlos Eduardo Sarmiento Monroy. An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) (Eng.) // ZooKeys: Journal. - Sofia: Pensoft Publishers, 2015 .-- Vol. 489. - P. 33-94. - ISSN 1313-2970 . doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.489.9258

[key44-2] ¹ ² Belokobylsky S.A., Tobias V.I. 2007. Sem. Braconidae - Braconids. 9. Subfamily. Alysiinae. A group of genera close to Aspilota // In the book: Key to insects of the Far East of Russia. Retina-winged, scorpion, hymenoptera. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka. T. 4, part 4. S.198-222

[Zagulyaev1960-3] A.K. Zagulyaev. 3 // Fauna of the USSR. Insects: Lepidoptera. Real moths (Tineidae), a subfamily of Tineinae / chapters. ed. Director of the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Acad. E.N. Pavlovsky . - 3. - Moscow-Leningrad: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960. - V. IV. - S. 146-169. - 266 p. - (New Series, No. 78). - 2000 copies.

[4] Tobias V.I. (ed. And author or first author). Order Hymenoptera - Hymenoptera. Family Braconidae - Braconids. 1986. Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. 3. The fourth part. 500 s (p. 184-198);