Venanus

Venanus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Braconidae
Subfamily:	Microgastrinae
Genus:	Venanus Mason, 1981

Venanus is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are about 11 described species in Venanus, found in the New World.

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Venanus:

• Venanus chilensis Mason, 1981
• Venanus greeneyi Whitfield & Arias-Penna, 2011
• Venanus heberti Fernández-Triana, 2010
• Venanus helavai Mason, 1981
• Venanus johnnyrosalesi Fernández-Triana & Whitfield, 2014
• Venanus kusikuyllurae Rasmussen & Whitfield, 2011
• Venanus minutalis (Muesebeck, 1958)
• Venanus peruensis Mason, 1981
• Venanus pinicola Mason, 1981
• Venanus randallgarciai Fernández-Triana & Whitfield, 2014
• Venanus yanayacuensis Arias-Penna & Whitfield, 2011

Further reading

• Fernandez-Triana, J. (2010). "Eight new species and an annotated checklist of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Canada and Alaska". ZooKeys (63): 1–53. doi:10.3897/zookeys.63.565. PMC 3088399. PMID 21594019.
• Fernandez-Triana, J.; Buffam, J.; Beaudin, M.; Davis, H.; et al. (2017). "An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland". ZooKeys (691): 49–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.691.14491. PMC 5672697. PMID 29200923.
• Marsh, Paul M.; Shaw, Scott R.; Wharton, Robert A. (1987). "An identification manual for the North American genera of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington.