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Meteorus comonile Rousse & Braet

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

Meteorus comonile Rousse & Braet, 2012. Holotype in Muséum National d’Hitoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality: Notre Dame de la Paix /Panoramique du sentier marmailles, alt. 1700m.

Classification

Meteorus_comonile_female_type_MNHN Meteorus_comonile_ male_MNHN

Diagnosis

Species with mesosoma mostly dark brown and tergite I yellowish orange. The short and triangular mandibles, with fine apical teeth, are characteristic (Rousse & Braet, 2012).

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Reunion.

References

Rousse, P. & Braet, Y. 2012. Braconid wasps (Hymenoptera) of Reunion. 1. Euphorinae (including Meteorini): key to species and description of six new species. Zootaxa 3449: 26–46.

Shaw, M.R. and T. Huddleston 1991. Classification and biology of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Handbooks for the Identification of the British Insects, Vol. 7, Part 11. Royal Entomological Society of London, London, England. 126pp.

Shaw, S.R. 1985. A phylogenetic study of the subfamilies Meteorinae and Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae). Entomography 3:277-370.

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

Credits

Phototographs by Agnièle Touret-Alby © MNHN. Visit the MNHN database http://coldb.mnhn.fr


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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