Ceranisus

Ceranisus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Eulophidae
Subfamily: Entedoninae
Genus: Ceranisus
Walker, 1842
Type species
Ceranisus pacuvius
(Walker, 1841)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Epomphale Girault, 1915
  • Gaziantepus Doganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • Guelsenia Doganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • Sergueicus Doganlar and Doganlar, 2013
  • Thripoctenus Crawford, 1911
  • Urfacus Doganlar, 2003

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

  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.