CERAPHRONIDAE Haliday, 1833
(a family of hymenopterans)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCERAPHRONIDAE (a family of hymenopterans)
SuperfamilyCERAPHRONOIDEA (a superfamily of hymenopterans)
SuborderAPOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Hackston, M. 2015 Family Ceraphronidae key to British genus and some species https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeyshymenoptera/

CERAPHRONIDAE (a family of hymenopterans) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CERAPHRONIDAE (a family of hymenopterans)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CERAPHRONIDAE (a family of hymenopterans)
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