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Ceraphronidae

Ceraphronid wasps of Africa and Madagascar 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ceraphronoidea)

Classification

Aphanogmus Thomson, 1858

Ceraphron Jurine, 1807
Cyoceraphron Dessart, 1975
Gnathoceraphron Dessart & Bin, 1981
  Retasus Dessart, 1984

 

Synarsis Förster, 1878

  Trassedia Dessart, 1975
Distribution Worldwide
Biology Parasitoids of insects in semi-concealed situations (Diptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera and Thysanoptera) or hyperparasitoids of Hymenoptera prepupa. 

Diversity

Worldwide: 315 species in 14 genera.

Afrotropical region: 49 species in 6 genera.

References

Dessart P. 1965. Contribution à l'étudendes Hyménoptères Proctotrupoidea.(VI) Les Ceraphroninae et quelques Megaspilinae(Ceraphronidae) du Musée Civique d'Histoire Naturelles de Gênes. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Entomologique de Belgique 101:105-192.

Dessart P. 1966. Contribution a létude des Hyménoptères Proctotrupoidea. (XI) Revision des Ceraphronidae d’Afrique orientale decrits par l’Abbé Jean-Jacques Kieffer. Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 42(19): 1–30.

Dessart P. 1978. Four new species of African Ceraphronidae (Hymenoptera). Journal of the Entomological Society of South Africa 41: 275–284.

Dessart P. 1984. Retasus ater gen. n., sp. n.: un ceraphronide de cauchemar! (Hymenoptera ceraphronoidea). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belge d’Entomologie 120: 277–281.

Dessart P. 1994. Hymenoptera Ceraphronoidea nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie 64: 49-103.

Dessart P. 1994. A propos du genre Cyoceraphron Dessart, 1975 (Hymenoptera Ceraphronoidea Ceraphronidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belge d'Entomologie 130: 19-52.

Dessart P. & Cancemi P. 1987. Tableau dichotomique des genres de Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera) avec commentaries et nouvelles especes. Frustula Entomologica 7-8: 307-372.

Johnson, N.F. & Musetti, L. 2004. Catalog of systematic literature of the superfamily  Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33: 1-149.

Madl M. 2015. A catalogue of the families Ceraphronidae, Megaspilidae (Ceraphronoidea), Diapriidae (Diaprioidea) and Proctotrupidae (Proctotrupoidea) of the Malagasy subregion (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Linzer Biologische Beitraege 47(1): 621–652.

Masner, L. 1965. The types of Proctotrupoidea (Hymenoptera) in the British Museum (Natural History) and in the Hope Department of Entomology, Oxford. Bulletin of the British Museum (natural History) Entomology Supplement, 1, 1–154. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23697

Masner, L. 1993. Superfamily Ceraphronoidea (pp. 566-569). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Masner L. & Dessart P. 1967. La reclassification des categories taxonomiques superieures des Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 43(22): 1–33.

Mikó I, Masner L, Johannes E, Yoder MJ, Deans AR 2013. Male terminalia of Ceraphronoidea: morphological diversity in an otherwise monotonous taxon. Insect Systematics & Evolution 44 (3–4), 261–347. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-04402002

Mikó I, Yoder M.J. and Deans AR. 2011. Order Hymenoptera: Family Megaspilidae: Genus Dendrocerus. In: Arthropod Fauna of the UAE. Van Harten, A (ed). Dar Al Ummah, Abu Dhabi.

Risbec J. 1953. Proctotrupidae de Madagascar especes recoltees par M. R. PAULIAN. Mémoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Série E 3: 313-348.
Risbec J. 1955. Diaprinae et Ceraphroninae de Madagascar (Hym. Proctotrupidae). Revue Française d' Entomologie 22 (3): 205-221.

Salden, T & Peters, R. 2023. Afrotropical Ceraphronoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera) put back on the map with the description of 88 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 884. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.884.2181.

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