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Latana Cameron

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Braconidae; Subfamily: Braconinae)

Latana Cameron, 1906. Type species: Latana excavata Cameron, 1906

  Latana excavata Cameron, 1906
  Latana keijua Laurenne & Quicke, 2004

Distribution

Afrotropical.

Biology

Parasitoids of Longhorn beetles (Lamiinae, Cerambycidae) Laurenne & Quicke (2004).

References

Brues, C.T. 1926. Studies on Ethiopian Braconidae with a catalogue of the African species. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 61:206-436.
Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum. 5:17-186.
Laurenne, N.M. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2004. A new species of Latana Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Kibale Forest National Park, western Uganda, with the first host record of the genus confirmed by molecular techniques. African Entomology. 12(1): 55-62.

Credits

 

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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