Meteorus Haliday, 1835
(a genus of braconid wasps)

Interactions where Meteorus is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

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Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
cocoon is endoparasitoid host of larva Perilampus ruficornis a chalcid wasp Hymenoptera: Perilampidae Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Section (a), Ferrière, C. & Kerrich, G.J., 1958
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Perilampidae/Perilampus ruficornis/Perilampus ruficornisa chalcid wasplarva Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Braconidae/Meteorus/Meteorusa genus of braconid waspscocoon larva is endoparasitoid of cocoon

Author & YearTitleSource
Ferrière, C. & Kerrich, G.J., 1958Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea: Section (a)Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol VIII, Part 2 (a), 40pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
Meteorus brevicauda
a braconid wasp
Species 1 trophisms
Meteorus versicolor
a braconid wasp
Species 1 trophisms
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusMeteorus (a genus of braconid wasps)
SubfamilyMETEORINAE (a subfamily of braconid wasps)
FamilyBRACONIDAE (death wasps)
SuperfamilyICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Huddleston, T. 1980 *** A revision of the western Palaearctic species of the genus Meteorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) ***(Superseded) Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol. vol 41: 1-58.
Stigenberg, J. & Ronquist, F. 2011 Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity Zootaxa 3084: 1-95.

Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Stigenberg, J. & Shaw, M.R. 2013 Western Palaearctic Meteorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in the National Museums of Scotland, with rearing, phenological and distributional data, including six species new to Britain, and a discussion of a potential route to speciation Ent. Gazette Vol 64: 251-268.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps):

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