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Ceraphronoidea

Insecta - Hymenoptera

Taxonomy
Ceraphronoidea was named by Haliday (1833). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Stephanoidea by Rasnitsyn and Brothers (2009).

It was assigned to Vespoides by Heraty et al. (2011); and to Apocrita by Rasnitsyn (1975) and Sharkey et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1833Ceraphronoidea Haliday
1975Ceraphronoidea Rasnitsyn p. 72
2011Ceraphronoidea Heraty et al.
2012Ceraphronoidea Sharkey et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
superfamilyCeraphronoidea
superfamilyCeraphronoidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Superfm. Ceraphronoidea Haliday 1833
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Fm. Ceraphronidae Haliday 1833
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G. Aphanogmus Thomson 1858
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†Aphanogmus serrulatus Meunier 1916
G. Ceraphron Jurine 1807
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†Ceraphron ceuthonymus Engel 2013
†Ceraphron fasciatus Meunier 1916
Invalid names: Ceraphronini Haliday 1833 [empty]
Fm. Megaspilidae Ashmead 1893
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G. Dendrocerus Ratzeburg 1852
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Invalid names: Lygocerus forster 1856 [synonym]
G. Lagynodes Forster 1841
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†Lagynodes primordialis Brues 1940
†Lagynodes pseudocarinatus Szabó and Oehlke 1986
Subfm. Lagynodinae Masner and Dessart 1967
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G. †Prolagynodes Alekseev and Rasnitsyn 1981
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†Prolagynodes penniger Alekseev and Rasnitsyn 1981
Subfm. Megaspilinae Ashmead 1893
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G. Conostigmus Dahlbom 1858
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†Conostigmus antiquus Alekseev 1995
†Conostigmus cavannus McKellar and Engel 2011
†Conostigmus chthonios Peñalver and Engel 2006
†Conostigmus dolicharthrus Alekseev and Rasnitsyn 1981
†Conostigmus juvenilis Brues 1940
†Conostigmus lazaros Peñalver and Engel 2006
†Conostigmus resinae Brues 1940
†Conostigmus succinalis Brues 1940
†Conostigmus talamasi Mikó and Trietsch 2018
Invalid names: Calliceratidae [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Holocene or 105.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian105.3 - 93.5Russian Federation (Taymyr) Conostigmus dolicharthrus (104988)
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Russian Federation Prolagynodes penniger (35056)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Conostigmus cavannus (122389)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8Canada (British Columbia) Megaspilidae indet. (123795)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Conostigmus antiquus (152000) Lagynodes primordialis, Lagynodes electriphilus, Conostigmus succinalis (124205) Lagynodes pseudocarinatus (155460)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Conostigmus talamasi (123419)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Ceraphron ceuthonymus (123708)
Orleanian20.0 - 15.97Spain Conostigmus chthonios (122985) Conostigmus lazaros (103100)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Ceraphron serrulatus, Ceraphron fasciatus (152189)