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Hakuna Gumovsky & Bouček

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

Hakuna matata Gumovsky & Bouček, 2006

Classification

Hakuna matata Gumovsky & Bouček, 2006

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)(Gumovsky et al. 2006).

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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