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Hakuna matata Gumovsky & Bouček

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Eulophidae; Subfamily: Entedoninae; Genus: Hakuna)

Hakuna matata Gumovsky & Bouček, 2006. Type in BMNH. Type locality. Kwanda (Uganda).

Classification

Figs 11-15, Hakuna matata:11, dorsal habitus; 12, lateral habitus; 13, dorso-lateral habitus; 14, host gall laterally; 15, host gall from above.

Figs 16-21, Hakuna matata: 16, head laterally and anterior part of mesosoma; 17, head dorsally and anterior part of mesosoma; 18, body in lateral view; 19, anterior part of mesosoma and occiput; 20, head and anterior part of mesosoma in lateral view; 21, head in dorsal view; 22, 23, face.

Distribution Uganda.
Biology

Probably a parasitoid. Reared from conical galls on a forest plant. Each gall contained several pupae in separate cells. Adults emerged through a single hole at the apex of the gall (from the collector’s notes - H.C. Taylor).

References

Gumovsky, A., Bouček, Z. & Delvare, G. 2006. New genera and species of Afrotropical Entedoninae (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae). Zool. Med. Leiden 80-1 (4): 73-85.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Credits

Photographs © Alex Gumovsky.


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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