Meteorus pulchricornis (Wesamel 1835)
- Dataset
- Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Braconidae
- genus
- Meteorus
- species
- Meteorus pulchricornis
materials_examined
Material examined: MALTA, Buskett, 25. v. 2014, 2 ♂♂, from larvae of Xanthia ruticilla (Esper) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), MZ, DMC [parasitoid determined by Mark Shaw; host determined by Michael Zerafa]. Notes: New record for the Maltese Islands. It is a koinobiont larval endoparasitoid with an exceptionally wide recorded host range that extends to fifteen families (in ten superfamilies) of Lepidoptera and includes numerous Noctuidae (Maeto, 2018).