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Cerocephalidae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cerocephalidae

Taxonomy
Cerocephalinae was named by Gahan (1946). It is extant.

It was reranked as the family Cerocephalidae by Burks et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Pteromalidae by Krogmann (2013) and Bläser et al. (2015); and to Chalcidoidea by Burks et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1946Cerocephalinae Gahan
2013Cerocephalinae Krogmann p. 45
2015Cerocephalinae Bläser et al. p. 91
2022Cerocephalidae Burks et al. p. 19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
Microprocta
superfamilyChalcidoidea
familyCerocephalidae(Gahan 1946)
familyCerocephalidae(Gahan 1946)

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.

Fm. Cerocephalidae Gahan 1946
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G. †Dominocephala Krogmann 2013
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Dominocephala vibrissae Krogmann 2013
G. †Pteropilosa Bläser et al. 2015
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Pteropilosa lailarabanorum Bläser et al. 2015
G. †Tenuicornus Bläser et al. 2015
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Tenuicornus dominicus Bläser et al. 2015
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available