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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps (Ceraphronoidea) » Ceraphronidae

Family Ceraphronidae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Remarks · Works Cited
tiny wingless wasp - Ceraphron - female wasp - Ceraphron Wasp Wasp SBBG-SCL-TIC_000324 - female Tiny wasp Ceraphronidae, lateral - female Aphanogmus?
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ceraphronoidea (Ceraphronid and Megaspilid Wasps)
Family Ceraphronidae
Explanation of Names
Ceraphronidae Haliday 1833
Numbers
52 spp. in our area in ~6 genera, ca. 360 described and ~1000 estimated spp. worldwide; ca. 35 spp. in Canada(1)
Size
0.5mm-3mm
Identification
Differs from Megaspilidae by:
Stigma small
Single spur on mid tibia
Metasomal petiole broad
Mesoscutum with a single median groove

Females have 9 or 10 segmented antennae, while males have 10 or 11 segmented antennae. Middle tibiae with one apical spur. Large spur on fore tibiae not forked apically. Stigma linear, rarely absent. (2)
Remarks
Have been reared as parasitoids of Diptera, Thysanoptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera. Some species are hyperparasitoids of Braconidae in aphids
Works Cited
1.Hymenoptera of the world: an identification guide to families
Goulet H., Huber J., eds. 1993. Agriculture Canada Publication 1894/E. 668 pp.
2.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
Contributed by tom murray on 16 June, 2007 - 6:12am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov, Arturo Santos, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 4 December, 2023 - 1:01pm

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