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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Braconid Wasps (Braconidae) » Meteorinae » Meteorus
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Braconid - Meteorus - female
Copyright © 2007 Steve Nanz

Braconid - Meteorus - Female
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
June 23, 2007
Size: ~4mm
Came to UV light. I found examples of Meteorus with similar wing venations.

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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 10 October, 2007 - 4:03am
Last updated 16 December, 2009 - 4:52pm

Moved
Moved from Braconid Wasps.
… v belov, 16 December, 2009 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Braconidae : Meteorinae
This looks to me like it belongs in the braconid subfamily Meteorinae.
… Andy Boring, 10 October, 2007 - 9:04am login or register to post comments

 
Confused
BugGuide places examples of Meteorus within Euphorinae. Is that an error? The Essig Museum of Entomology at Berkeley places Meteorus within Meteorinae.

After a quick web search I got the impression that this is still being sorted out and that Meteorinae might be best treated as a tribe within Euphorinae. What is the curent view?
… Steve Nanz, 11 October, 2007 - 4:10am login or register to post comments

Nice find
Do you know the size? You can count the threads and figure it out that way.
… Beatriz Moisset, 10 October, 2007 - 7:25am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you both
About 6mm from head to tip of abdomen not including the ovipositor.
… Steve Nanz, 10 October, 2007 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Closer to 4mm
I miscalculated because the stitches in the sheet behind the subject are spaced closer together horizontally than vertically.
… Steve Nanz, 29 February, 2008 - 4:42am login or register to post comments

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