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Meteorinae

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae)

 

 

Biology

Solitary or gregararious enparasitoids (koinobiont) of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera larvae.

Distribution

Worldwide

References

Huddleston, T. 1980. A revision of the western Palearctic species of the genus Meteorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 41:1-58.

Madel, G. 1963. Beiträge zur morphologie und bologie von Meteorus fagalis Wesm. (Hym., Braconidae)-ein endoparasit des mondvogels Phalera bucephala L. (Lep. Notodontidae). Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie 53:1-47.

Van Achterberg (1973c) revised the world fauna of Zele.

Maetō, K. 1990. Phylogenetic relationships and host associations of the subfamily Meteorinae Cresson (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 58:383-396.

Shenefelt, R.D. 1969. Braconidae 1. Hybrizoninae, Euphorinae, Cosmophorinae, Neoneurinae, Macrocentrinae. Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Pars 4:1-176.

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