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Meteorus laphygmarum Brues

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

Meteorus laphygmarum Brues,1926. Holotype in  Type locality:

Classification

images/Meteorus_laphygmarum_MNHN.jpg

Diagnosis

Species recognizable in the Madagascar subregion by the ventral margins of tergite I which are totally separated (Rousse & Braet, 2012).

Biology

Unknown.

Distribution

Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mauritius, ?Reunion, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

References

Brues, C.T. 1926. Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae with a catalogue of the African species. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 61, 206–436.

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 Agničle 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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