Labania Hedqvist

Bortoni, Marco Aurélio, Castro, Clóvis Sormus De & Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria, 2015, The genus Labania Hedqvist 1963 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Doryctinae) with description of a new species from Brazil, Zootaxa 4007 (4), pp. 592-595 : 594

Key to species of Labania Hedqvist (Modified from Marsh, 2002)

1 Body length 1.0– 1.5 mm; with fewer than 20 antennomeres ....................................................................................... 2

- Body length 3.0–4.0 mm; with more than 20 antennomeres ........................................................................................ 3

2 Frons and vertex black, mesosoma and metasoma black, fore and middle legs honey yellow, propodeum apically rugose with dorsal and lateral areas rugose, fore wing vein 1cu-a distinctly postfurcal with vein 1M, ovipositor not extending beyond apex of metasoma. Costa Rica.............................................................................. L. minuta Marsh

- Frons and vertex yellow, mesosoma and metasoma completely yellow, all legs whitish yellow, propodeum with an areola, fore wing vein 1cu-a interstitial with 1M vein, ovipositor extending beyond apex at metasoma and about 1.8 x longer than hind tibia. Brazil. ....................................................................................................... L. carolinae sp. n.

3 Second metasomal tergum smooth; mesosoma and metasoma black. Costa Rica.......................... L. hansoni Marsh

- Second metasomal tergum longitudinally carinate at base; mesosoma and metasoma at least partially brown… 4

4 Ovipositor extending beyond apex of metasoma by length of hind basitarsus; first metasomal tergum parallel sided, length greater than apical width. Costa Rica...................................................................................... L. prolata Marsh

- Ovipositor usually not extending beyond apex of metasoma, rarely only very slightly, and length much less than length of hind of hind basitarsus; first metasomal tergum longitudinally carinate, its length about equal to apical width. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua............................................................. L. straminea Hedqvist