De Almeida Luis Felipe Ventura, Dias Angélica Maria Penteado
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva. Caixa Postal 676, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.; Email:
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva. Caixa Postal 676, 13565-905 São Carlos, SP, Brazil.; Email: unknown.
Zootaxa. 2015 Dec 10;4057(2):231-47. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.4.
Meteorus Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a cosmopolitan genus with around 340 species described, all koinobiont endoparasitoids of Coleoptera or Lepidoptera larvae, and several of its hosts are pest insects. Previously to this work only two species were described from Brazil, M. eaclidis Muesebeck and M. townsendi Muesebeck. Five new species of Meteorus are here described: M. atlanticus n. sp., M. ferruginosus n. sp., M. itatiaiensis n. sp., M. monoceros n. sp., and M. strigatus n. sp. Three species are recorded for the first time from Brazil: M. jerodi Aguirre & Shaw, M. laphygmae Viereck and M. megalops Zitani.
哈氏流星茧蜂属（Meteorus Haliday，1835）（膜翅目：茧蜂科）是一个世界性分布的属，已描述约340种，均为鞘翅目或鳞翅目幼虫的共寄生内寄生蜂，其一些寄主为害虫。在本研究之前，巴西仅描述过两种该属物种，即伊氏流星茧蜂（M. eaclidis Muesebeck）和汤氏流星茧蜂（M. townsendi Muesebeck）。本文描述了哈氏流星茧蜂属的五个新物种：大西洋流星茧蜂（M. atlanticus n. sp.）、铁锈色流星茧蜂（M. ferruginosus n. sp.）、伊塔蒂亚伊流星茧蜂（M. itatiaiensis n. sp.）、独角流星茧蜂（M. monoceros n. sp.）和条纹流星茧蜂（M. strigatus n. sp.）。三种物种首次在巴西被记录：杰氏流星茧蜂（M. jerodi Aguirre & Shaw）、棉铃虫流星茧蜂（M. laphygmae Viereck）和大眼流星茧蜂（M. megalops Zitani）。
