History[]
The Menoptera are an alien race native to Vortis, the so-called "Web Planet", who resemble gigantic humanoid butterflies. Largely ineffectual, they seem to be continually menaced by the ant-like Zarbi, a supposedly near mindless species which they usually keep as cattle, but which have a distressing tendency to be enslaved and used as shock troops by hostile extravortisian lifeforms. The Doctor usually has to save them. Bunch of Muppets.
Powers and abilities[]
Abilities
Flight.
Weaknesses
They really are a bit rubbish.
Paraphernalia[]
Transportation
Wings.
Weapons
Venom guns.
Notes[]
The Menoptera (and the Zarbi) first appeared in the televised Doctor Who story The Web Planet, and were quite spectacularly unsuccessful. This did not, however, prevent them from returning in both TV Comic and the Doctor Who Annual for pointless retreads of their one on-screen appearance.
Links[]
- Appearances of Menoptera
- Character Gallery: Menoptera
- Images that feature Menoptera
- Fan-Art Gallery: Menoptera
- Menoptera quotations