Meteorinae Cresson, 1887

Broad, Gavin R., Shaw, Mark R. & Godfray, H. Charles J., 2016, Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8151-8151 : 8151

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scientific name

Meteorinae Cresson, 1887
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Meteorinae Cresson, 1887

ZELINAE Ashmead, 1900

ZEMIOTINAE van Achterberg, 1976

Notes

Stigenberg et al. (2015) included the meteorines as a basal tribe of Euphorinae , rather than as a separate subfamily, as was the preference of many authors, for example, Shaw and Huddleston (1991). In light of their very different developmental biology (parasitoids of larval Lepidoptera and Coleoptera as opposed to parasitising adult insects) and sister-group position to the euphorines, we retain the subfamily rank for Meteorinae .