Meteorus Haliday, 1835
(a genus of braconid wasps)

Subtaxon	Rank	No of images
Meteorus ictericus a death wasp	Species	15 images
Meteorus jaculator a death wasp	Species	19 images
Meteorus obfuscatus a death wasp	Species	17 images
Meteorus rubens a death wasp	Species	23 images
Meteorus ruficeps a death wasp	Species	25 images
Meteorus versicolor a braconid wasp	Species	23 images
[Meteorus abdominator/longipilosus] a pair of currently-indistinguishable death wasps	Informal	14 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps)
Subfamily	METEORINAE (a subfamily of braconid wasps)
Family	BRACONIDAE (death wasps)
Superfamily	ICHNEUMONOIDEA (braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Meteorus is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Huddleston, T.	1980	* A revision of the western Palaearctic species of the genus Meteorus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) *(Superseded)	Bull.br.Mus.nat.Hist.Entomol.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:

METEORINAE
(a subfamily of braconid wasps)

BRACONIDAE
(death wasps)

ICHNEUMONOIDEA
(braconid and ichneumon parasitic wasps)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Meteorus (a genus of braconid wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Meteorus is also a member of:

Identification Works

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