Ceranisus

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Ceranisus
Ceranisus americensis.jpg
Ceranisus americensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Entedoninae
Genus: Ceranisus
Walker, 1842
Type species
Ceranisus pacuvius
(Walker, 1841)
Species

see Text

Synonyms
List
  • Epomphale Girault, 1915
  • GaziantepusDoganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • GuelseniaDoganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • SergueicusDoganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • Thripoctenus Crawford, 1911
  • UrfacusDoganlar, 2003

Ceranisus is a genus of wasps in the family Eulophidae. They are parasitoids of thrips and may be important in their biological control. [1]

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Ceranisus:

References

  1. S.V. Triapitsyn; D.H. Headrick (1995). "A Review of the Nearctic Species of the Thrips-Attacking Genus Ceranisus Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 121 (4): 227–248.