Meteorus

This article is about a genus of wasps. For the plant genus previously known as Meteorus, see Barringtonia.

Meteorus is a genus of parasitoid wasps in the family Braconidae.^[1] It comprises over 330 species worldwide.^[2]

Meteorus
Meteorus rubens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Subfamily:	Meteorinae
Genus:	Meteorus Haliday, 1835

Meteorus wasps are distinguished from other braconid wasps by the presence of a second submarginal cell in the forewing and a petiolate first tergite.^[3]

Selected species

• Meteorus andreae Aguirrer & Shaw, 2011
• Meteorus gyrator Thunberg, 1922
• Meteorus hyphantriae Riley, 1887
• Meteorus laphygmae Viereck 1913
• Meteorus pulchricornis Wesmael, 1835
• Meteorus rubens Nees, 1811
• Meteorus stellatus Fujie et al., 2021^[4]
• Meteorus trachynotus Viereck, 1912