''Hakuna'' is a genus of

chalcid wasp Chalcid wasps (, , for their metallic colour) are insects within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the order Hymenoptera. The superfamily contains some 22,500 known species, and an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, me ...

s from the family Eulophidae, containing the only species ''Hakuna matata''. It was named in 2006 from specimens reared from a plant gall collected in a forest in Uganda. ''H. matata'' was named after a catchphrase from Disney's 1994 animated film '' The Lion King'' (the phrase itself comes from the

Swahili Swahili may refer to: * Swahili language, a Bantu language official in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes * Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa * Swahili culture Swahili culture is the culture of ...

phrase . It was thought that this naming would best convey "an African spirit".

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Monotypic Hymenoptera genera Eulophidae Insects described in 2006 Insects of Uganda {{Eulophidae-stub