Chartocerus Clytina Signiphora Thysanus Signiphoridae (historically also known as Thysanidae) is a small family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.

They are usually black, brown, or yellowish, occasionally with salmon pink or white details, but never metallic.

The main diagnostic characteristics are: Chartocerus and Thysanus have cosmopolitan distributions.

[2]: 62–63 Woolley (1988)[3] made several changes in the classification at genus and species level after a phylogenetic analysis of the family.

The available generic names in this group are Signiphora Ashmead, Thysanus Walker, Chartocerus Motschulsky, Clytina Erdös, Neosigniphora Rust, Kerrichiella Rozanov, Rozanoviella Subba Rao, Xana Kurdjumov, Matritia Mercet, Signiphorina Nikol'skaya and Neocales Risbec.