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Key to Families of Ceraphronoidea

(derived primarily fr. Gauld & Bolton 1988)

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1a. Mid leg with one tibial spur; mesonotum without prescutal sutures, with or without median longitudinal furrow;

longer tibial spur of fore leg not forked apically; antenna with 9-11 segments...............................Ceraphronidae

1b. Mid leg with two tibial spurs; mesonotum, at least anteriorly, with prescutal sutures and almost always with

median longitudinal furrow, or if prescutal sutures absent then pronotum very elongated and ocelli absent or

forewing with only the costal vein and gastral collar with 3 ridges; longer tibial spur of fore leg forked apically;

antennae with 11 segments..................................................................................................................Megaspilidae