Meteorus jerodi Aguirre & Shaw, 2011

Aguirre, Helmuth, de Almeida, Luis Felipe, Shaw, Scott Richard & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2015, An illustrated key to Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae), ZooKeys 489, pp. 33-94 : 75

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Meteorus jerodi Aguirre & Shaw, 2011

Material examined.

Seventeen females, one male (point mounted), ECUADOR, Province of Napo 00°43'52.5"S, 77°46'25.3"W, Narupa, 1186 m, collected as a noctuid caterpillar parasitoid feeding on Asteraceae 3.IV.2013, pupated 15.IV.2013, emerged 29.V.2013, YY73611 (rearing code), UWIM.

Comments.

This species is known from the locality of Zipacón (1425 m), department of Cundinamarca, and from the locality of Togii (1830 m), department of Boyacá, Colombia ( Aguirre et al. 2011). Meteorus jerodi was described from Malaise traps samples and the information here provided represents its first biological record.