Meteorini, Cresson, 1887

Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, Zootaxa 3084 (1), pp. 1-95 : 26

Key to European genera of Meteorini :

1 Marginal cell of hind wing widened apically ( Fig. 10a ), at least apical half of 3rd and following abdominal tergites setose ( Fig. 11 )................................................................................... Zele ( Curtis, 1832)

– Marginal cell of hind wing subparallel or narrowed apically ( Fig. 10b ), 3rd and following abdominal tergites with a single row of setae ( Fig. 12 ).................................................................. Meteorus ( Haliday, 1835)

Figures

FIGURES 10–17. Characters used in key to species. 10a) hind wing of Z. albiditarsus, 10b) hind wing of M. colon, 11) metaoma of Z. deceptor, 12) metasoma of M. pendulus, 13a) fore wing of Z. chlorophthalmus, 13b) fore wing of Z. albiditarsus, 14) mesosoma of Z. caligatus, 15) mesosoma of Z. deceptor, 16) fore femur and tibial spur of Z. albiditarsus, 17) fore femur and tibial spur of Z. deceptor.