A new species of braconid wasp Meteorus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Meteorinae) from India

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Zaheer Ahmed
Altaf Hussain Mir
Mohammad Shamim

Abstract

A new species of braconid wasp, Meteorus rubrum Ahmed & Shamim sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Meteorinae), is described from India.  The new species is closely related with M. dichomeridis (Wilkinson, 1930) and M. kotanni (Maeto, 1986).

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