Author, year, journal with original description

Girault, A.A., 1920, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 8:142-146

Type species

Goetheana shakespearei Girault (type female in Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia)

Synonym names

Dasyscapus Gahan

Diagnosis

Very small species (less than 0.8 mm); with an occipital suture behind posterior ocelli; midlobe of mesoscutum without setae; forewing with very long marginal fringe and with anterior and posterior margins of membrane parallel

Number of species

Four, of which one (shakespearei) occurs in the Neotropical region (Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago)

Distribution

Africa, Australia, Asia, introduced into many countries (e.g. in the Neotropical region)

Biology

Larval parasitoids of various Thripidae (Insecta: Thysanoptera)

Literature

Triapitsyn, S.V. 2005. Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the World