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Key to northern European Ceidae
Hymenoptera
Chalcidoidea
Ceidae
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Wings
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Wings fully developed.
Wings reduced, non functional.
Mesopleuron
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Posterior margin of mesopleuron expanded posteriorly, clearly overlapping metapleuron complex.
Posterior margin of mesopleuron not expanded posteriorly, not overlapping metapleuron complex.
Ovipositor color
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Ovipositor sheaths white or almost so, contrasting with a much darker abdomen.
Ovipositor sheaths darker.
Ovipositor length
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Ovipositor sheaths at least half as long as hind tibiae.
Ovipositor sheaths shorter.
Admarginal setae
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Forewing with 4-10 admarginal setae.
Forewing with no admarginal setae.
Body
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Body slender, mesosoma about twice as long as wide.
Body more stout, mesosoma about 1.5 as long as max width.
Likely taxa
Cea pulicaris
Spalangiopelta alata
Spalangiopelta alboaculeata
Spalangiopelta brachyptera
Spalangiopelta dudichi
Spalangiopelta procera
Info
References
Darling D. C. (1991).
Revision of the World species of Spalangiopelta (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Ceinae). Life Sciences Contributions, (155)
. Royal Ontario Museum.
Finlands Artdatacenter (2024). LAJI.FI: Chalcidoidea.
https://laji.fi/sv/taxon/MX.53733
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Tryapitsyn, V. A. (1988). Family Encyrtidae (Encyrtids). In Medvedev, G. S. (Ed.),
Keys to the Insects of the European Part of USSR, Vol. 3: Hymenoptera. Part 2.
(s. 427–594). Nauka Leningrad.
Mitroiu M. D. (2016). Review of world genera of Ceinae, with the description of two new Palaearctic species of
Spalangiopelta
Masi (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae).
European Journal of Taxonomy, 251
, 1–15
Peck, O., Bouček, Z., & Hoffer, A. (1964) Keys to the Chalcidoidea of Czechoslovakia (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, volume 96
(S34), 7–121.
SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Artfakta: Chalcidoidea.
https://artfakta.se/taxa/2002985
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