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

Trigastrotheca laikipiensis Quicke, 2005. Holotype in Bohart Museum of Entomogy, University of California,  Davis, USA. Type Locality: Mpala Research Centre Laikipia District, Kenya.

Distribution

Kenya.

Biology

Found sealed within a swollen thorn of Acacia drepanolobitmi with either claustral colonies of Crematogaster uigriceps or Crematogaster mimosae ants.

References

Quicke, D.L.J. & Stanton, M. L. 2005. Trigastrotheca laikipiensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new species of brood parasitic wasp that attacks foundress queens of three coexisting Acacia-ant species in Kenya. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 14(2):182-190.

Credits

Map Illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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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