Salden, Tobias;Peters, Ralph S.
Ceraphronidae
Sign in to saveThe Ceraphronidae, commonly known as ceraphronids or ceraphronid wasps, are a small hymenopteran family with 14 genera and some 360 known species, though a great many species are still undescribed. It is a poorly known group as a whole, though most are believed to be parasitoids (especially of flies), and a few hyperparasitoids. Many are found in the soil, and of these, a number are wingless.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyCeraphronidae
This family is treated here as restricted by Masner and Dessart in 1967.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,036
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Ceraphronidae
- Collections
- USNM, UAM
- Recorded in
- United States
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ceraphronoidea
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- Ceraphonidae.jpg
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- Ceraphronidae
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- Ceraphronidae
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- Category:Ceraphronidae
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The Ceraphronidae, commonly known as ceraphronids or ceraphronid wasps, are a small hymenopteran family with 14 genera and some 360 known species, though a great many species are still undescribed. It is a poorly known group as a whole, though most are believed to be parasitoids (especially of flies), and a few hyperparasitoids. Many are found in the soil, and of these, a number are wingless.
The family is distinguished from the closely related Megaspilidae by having a very small stigma in the wing, a very broad metasomal petiole, and a single median groove in the mesoscutum.
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