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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » parasitic Apocrita » Ceraphronids and Megaspilids (Ceraphronoidea) » Ceraphronidae

Family Ceraphronidae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Remarks · Internet References
tiny wingless wasp - Ceraphron - female tiny wingless wasp - Ceraphron - female Wasp wasp - female Wasp ID - Ceraphron Wasp ID - Ceraphron Wasp ID - Ceraphron Ceraphronoidea: Megaspilidae: Lagydoninae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)
Superfamily Ceraphronoidea (Ceraphronids and Megaspilids)
Family Ceraphronidae
Numbers
Nearctica lists 54 species in 6 genera.
Identification
It is differentiated from Megaspilidae by having a very small stigma in the wing, a very broad metasomal petiole, and a single median groove in the mesoscutum.
Remarks
Have been reared as parasitoids of Diptera, Thysanoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera. Some species are hyperparasitoids of Braconidae in aphids
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Contributed by tom murray on 16 June, 2007 - 6:12am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 15 June, 2008 - 9:52pm

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