1188 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 

 Taxonomy: Masner and Dessart, 1967. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. de Belg., Bui. 43: 25-29. 



Genus CERAPHRON Jurinc 



Ceraphron Jurine, 1807. Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym. Dipt., p. 303. Preoccupied by Ceraphron 

 Panzer, 1805, but validated by the International Commission on Zoological 

 Nomenclature in its Opinion 174, published in 1946, and placed on the Official List of 

 generic names in zoology as name no. 615. 



Type-species: Ceraphron .sh/co^ms Jurine. Desig. by Internatl. Comn. Zool. 

 Nomencl., Op. 174, 1946. 

 Calliceras Nees, 1834. Hym. Ichn. Aff. Monog., v. 2, p. 278. 



Type-species: Calliceras fuacicomis Nees. Desig. by Blanchard, 1843. 

 HadroceruH Foerster, 1840. Beitr. Monog. Pteromalinen, p. xliv. Unnecessarily proposed as 



a new name for Calliceras Nees. 

 Megaspilidea Ashmead, 1888. Canad. Ent. 20: 48, 49. 



Type-species: Megaspilidea ))n)iuta Ashmead. Monotypic. 

 Pristo)nicrops Kieffer, 1906. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 30: 146. 

 Type-species: Pristoiiiicrops claratus Kieffer. Monotypic. 

 Cerataphron Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 152. Emend. 

 Allomicrops Kieffer, 1914. Das Tierreich, Lief. 42, pp. xv, 69, 138. 



Type-species: Ceraphron abnoniiis Perkins. Monotypic. 

 Eulagynodes Girault, 1917. New Javanese Hymenoptera, p. 9 (private pub.). 



Type-species: Eulagynodes bicolor Girault. Orig. desig. 

 Ceranognais Risbec, 1953. Inst. Francais d'Afrique Noire, Bui. 15: 560. 

 Type-species: Ceranognius testaceus Risbec. Monotypic. 



Some species of Ceraphron develop as primary parasites and others as hyperparasites. There 

 are few published rearing records for described North American species but in other parts of 

 the world species of Ceraphron have been found to parasitize Diptera (Cecidomyiidae, Droso- 

 philidae, Phoridae, Sciaridae and Syrphidae), Hymenoptera (Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, 

 Dryinidae and Bethylidae), Homoptera (Aleyrodidae, Aphididae and Coccoidea, the last two 

 possibly as hyperparasites) and certain small neuropteroids. Specimens of Ceraphron have also 

 been taken in the nests of ants. 



Revision: Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 123-132. —Kieffer, 1914. Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 42, pp. 70-114. 



Taxonomy: Dessart, 1965. Soc. Roy. d'Ent. de Belg., Bui. et Ann. 101: 110-158 (micropterous 

 and brachypterous forms). 



Biology: Haeussler, 1940. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 728: 31. — LePelley, 1943. Roy. Ent. 

 Soc. London, Trans. 93: 81. 

 abnormis Perkins. Calif.; Hawaiian Isls., Indonesia. Host: Haplogonatopus vitiensis Perkins 

 and Eclithrodelphax fairchildi Perkins. 

 Ceraphron ab)ior)nis Perkins, 1910. Fauna Hawaiiensis, v. 2, p. 617. 9, 6. 

 Eulagynodes bicolor Girault, 1917. New Javanese Hymenoptera, p. 9 (private pub.) 9 . 



Ta.xonomy: Masner, 1964. Acta Soc. Ent. Cechoslov. 61: 126. 



Biology: Swezey, 1908. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 2: 18-21. 

 amesicola (OglobHn). Iowa (Ames). 



Calliceras a)nesicola Ogloblin, 1944. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 46: 155. 9. 

 amplus Ashmead. Pa., D. C. Host: Megaselia sp. 



Ceraphron ampins Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 124, 129. 9. 

 auripes Ashmead. Ont. (Ottawa). 



Ceraphron anripes Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 124, 125. 9. 

 borealis (Whittaker). B. C. (Hollyburn). 



Calliceras boreale Whittaker, 1930. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 32: 71. 9. 



brevicornis Brues. Wis. (Milwaukee). 



Ceraphron brericornis Brues, 1906. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 4: 145, 146. 6. 



