Author, year, journal with original description
Walker, F., 1841, The Entomologist 1:v-vi
Type species
Ceranisus pacuvius Walker (lectotype female in the Natural History Museum, London)
Synonym names
Thripoctenus Crawford; Epomphale Girault; Urfacus Doganlar
Diagnosis
Occipital suture present; midlobe of mesoscutum with 2 pair of setae (1 pair in C. russelli); flagellum with 2 funiculars in both sexes; male scape usually strongly swollen
Number of species
14, of which 4 have been recorded from the Neotropical region
Distribution
Throughout the World
Biology
Larval parasitoids on Thripidae (Insecta: Thysanoptera)
Literature
Triapitsyn, S.V. 2005. Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the World