Venanides Explained

Venanides is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are about 14 described species in Venanides, found throughout much of the world.

Species

These 14 species belong to the genus Venanides:

• Venanides astydamia (Nixon, 1965)
• Venanides caspius Abdoli, Fernandez-Triana & Talebi, 2019
• Venanides congoensis (de Saeger, 1941)
• Venanides curticornis (Granger, 1949)
• Venanides demeter (Wilkinson, 1934)
• Venanides longifrons Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017
• Venanides parmula (Nixon, 1965)
• Venanides plancina (Nixon, 1965)
• Venanides pyrogrammae (Nixon, 1965)
• Venanides supracompressus Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017
• Venanides symmysta (Nixon, 1965)
• Venanides tenuitergitus Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017
• Venanides vanharteni Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg, 2017
• Venanides xeste Mason, 1981

Further reading

• Eight new species and an annotated checklist of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Canada and Alaska. 2010. Fernandez-Triana . J.. ZooKeys. 63. 1–53. 10.3897/zookeys.63.565. 3088399. 21594019. 2010ZooK...63....1F. free.
• An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland. 2017. Fernandez-Triana . J.. Buffam . J.. Beaudin . M.. Davis . H.. Fernandez-Galliano . A.. Griffin . E.. Lin . S-Y. McAulay . M.K.. Richter . R.. Rodriguez . F.. Várkonyi . G.. 4. ZooKeys. 691. 49–101. 10.3897/zookeys.691.14491. 5672697. 29200923. 2017ZooK..691...49F. free.
• An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera). 1987. Marsh . Paul M.. Shaw . Scott R.. Wharton . Robert A.. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington.