Ceidae is a small family of

chalcid wasp Chalcid wasps (, , for their metallic colour) are insects within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the order Hymenoptera. The superfamily contains some 22,500 known species, and an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, me ...

s, previously classified as subfamily Ceinae, in the polyphyletic family

Pteromalidae The Pteromalidae are a very large family of mostly parasitoid wasps, with some 3,450 described species in about 640 genera (the number was greater, but many species and genera have been reduced by synonymy in recent years). The subfamily-level d ...

. These wasps are

parasitoids In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasi ...

of other small insects. Hosts are known only for ''

Cea pulicaris ''Cea'' is a monotypic genus of wasps belonging to the family Ceidae. The only species is ''Cea pulicaris''. References

Chalcidoidea Insects described in 1837 Insects of Europe {{Chalcidoidea-stub ...

'' (small Agromyzid flies) and '' Spalangiopelta alata'' (small

Drosophilid The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies. Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae, are true f ...

flies).

Genera and species

Bohpa ''Bohpa'' is a monotypic genus of wasps belonging to the family Ceidae Ceidae is a small family of chalcid wasps, previously classified as subfamily Ceinae, in the Polyphyly, polyphyletic family Pteromalidae. These wasps are Parasitoid, paras ...

'' Darling,1991 * ''B. maculata'' Darling, 1991(South Africa) '' Cea'' Walker, 1837 * ''C. pulicaris'' Walker, 1837 (West Palaearctic) '' Spalangiopelta'' Masi, 1922 * ''S. alata'' Bouček, 1953 (West Palaearctic), * ''S. albigena'' Darling, 1991 (Nearctic, Neotropical), * ''S. alboaculeata'' Darling, 1995 (West Palaearctic), * ''S. apotherisma'' Darling & Hanson, 1986 (Nearctic), * ''S. brachyptera'' Masi, 1922 (West Palaearctic), * ''S. canadensis'' Darling, 1991 (Nearctic), * ''S. ciliata'' Yoshimoto, 1977 (Nearctic), * ''S. dudichi'' Erdős, 1955 (West Palaearctic), * ''S. felonia'' Darling & Hanson, 1986 (Nearctic), * ''S. ferrierei'' (Hedqvist, 1964) (Neotropical), * ''S. hiko'' Darling, 1995 (East Palaearctic), * ''S. laevis'' Darling, 1991 (Neotropical), * ''S. procera'' Graham, 1966 (West Palaearctic) * ''S. rameli'' Mitroiu, 2016 (West Palaearctic) * ''S. viridis'' Mitroiu, 2016 (Canary Islands) There is one fossil species: ''S. georgei'' Darling, 1997.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q116039283 Chalcidoidea Apocrita families