Meteorus Haliday 1835
Creators: name: Aguirre, Helmuth
name: Shaw, Scott R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus

description: Key for the Neotropical species of the genus Meteorus parasitoids of caterpillars of Arctiinae   
(Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae)  
1. Notauli deeply impressed and distinct (Fig 30).............................................................. 2  
- Notauli shallow and not distinct (Fig. 7).................................................................... 3  
 2(1). Ventral borders of first tergite joined completely along anterior ½ of segment, pronotum orange, wings hyaline...................................................................................... M. mirandae n. sp. (Figs. 19–22)   
 - Ventral borders of first tergite separated basally and joined apically, pronotum black, wings infuscated.............................................................................................. M. oreo Jones (Figs. 29 and 30)   
3(1). Occipital carina incomplete dorsomedially.................................................................. 4  
- Occipital carina complete dorsomedially................................................................... 5  
 4(3). Mesonotal lobes black-dark brown; notauli, scutellum and area between lobes, yellow; mesopleuron laterally yellow, ventrally dark brown.................................................................... M. juliae n. sp. (Figs. 13–16)   
- Mesonotal lobes and mesopleuron totally yellow............................................................. 6  
5(3). Propodeum orange or yellow............................................................................ 7  
- Propodeum black-dark brown or ferruginous................................................................8  
 6(4). Vein m-cu of forewing antefurcal, head height 1.4–1.5 x eye height, ovipositor length 1.7–1.8 x first tergite length........................................................................................ M. margarita Jones (Fig. 28)   
 - Vein m-cu of forewing interstitial, head height 1.6–1.7 x eye height, ovipositor length 2–2.2 x first tergite length...................................................................................... M. quasifabatus Jones (Fig. 32)   
 7(5). Mandibles twisted, temple length 0.3–0.5 x eye length in dorsal view, ocellus ocular distance 0.8–1.2 x ocellar diameter................................................................................ M. laphygmae Viereck (Fig. 27)   
 - Mandibles moderately twisted, temple length 0.6–0.7 x eye length in dorsal view, ocellus ocular distance 1.4 x ocellar diameter............................................................................ M. porcatus Jones (Fig. 31)   
 8(5). Tarsal claw simple, longitudinal and transversal carinae on propodeum present... M cecavorum Aguirre & Shaw (Figs. 5–8)   
- Tarsal claw with a large lobe, longitudinal and transversal carinae on propodeum absent.............................. 9  
 9(8). Pronotum, mesonotum, mesopleuron and metapleuron mostly ferruginous............. M. arizonensis Muesebeck (Fig. 26)   
 - Pronotum dorsally black, ventrally yellow; mesonotum mostly black-dark brown; mesopleuron and metapleuron mostly yellow............................................................................ M. anuae n. sp. (Figs. 1–4)
description: Published as part of Aguirre, Helmuth & Shaw, Scott R., 2014, Neotropical species of Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Meteorinae) parasitizing Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae), pp. 353-367 in Zootaxa 3779 (3) on page 354, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4910419