Biology:Ceidae

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Short description: Family of wasps

Ceidae
Cea pulicaris iNat111322094.jpg
Cea pulicaris female
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
Family: Ceidae
Bouček, 1961
Genera

Bohpa
Cea
Spalangiopelta

Female Bohpa maculata

Ceidae is a small family of chalcid wasps, previously classified as subfamily Ceinae, in the polyphyletic family Pteromalidae.[1] These wasps are parasitoids of other small insects. Hosts are known only for Cea pulicaris (small Agromyzid flies) and Spalangiopelta alata (small Drosophilid flies).[2][3]

Genera and species

Bohpa Darling,1991

  • B. maculata Darling, 1991(South Africa)

Cea Walker, 1837

  • C. pulicaris Walker, 1837 (West Palaearctic)

Spalangiopelta Masi, 1922

  • S. alata Bouček, 1953 (West Palaearctic),
  • S. albigena Darling, 1991 (Nearctic, Neotropical),
  • S. alboaculeata Darling, 1995 (West Palaearctic),
  • S. apotherisma Darling & Hanson, 1986 (Nearctic),
  • S. brachyptera Masi, 1922 (West Palaearctic),
  • S. canadensis Darling, 1991 (Nearctic),
  • S. ciliata Yoshimoto, 1977 (Nearctic),
  • S. dudichi Erdős, 1955 (West Palaearctic),
  • S. felonia Darling & Hanson, 1986 (Nearctic),
  • S. ferrierei (Hedqvist, 1964) (Neotropical),
  • S. hiko Darling, 1995 (East Palaearctic),
  • S. laevis Darling, 1991 (Neotropical),
  • S. procera Graham, 1966 (West Palaearctic)
  • S. rameli Mitroiu, 2016 (West Palaearctic)
  • S. viridis Mitroiu, 2016 (Canary Islands)

There is one fossil species: S. georgei Darling, 1997.[2]

References

  1.  , Wikidata Q115923766
  2. 2.0 2.1 Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan (15 December 2016). "Review of world genera of Ceinae, with the description of two new Palaearctic species of Spalangiopelta Masi (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae)" (in en). European Journal of Taxonomy (251). doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.251. ISSN 2118-9773. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/375.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  3. Noyes, J.S. (March 2019). "Universal Chalcidoidea Database". The Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. 


Wikidata ☰ Q116039283 entry