Parasitica

Parasitica (the parasitican wasps) is an obsolete, paraphyletic infraorder of Apocrita containing the parasitoid wasps.[5] It includes all Apocrita except for the Aculeata. Parasitica has more members as a group than both the Symphyta and the Aculeata combined. [6]

Parasitica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Infraorder:	Parasitica
Superfamilies
Ceraphronoidea Chalcidoidea Cynipoidea Diaprioidea Evanioidea Ichneumonoidea Megalyroidea Mymarommatoidea Platygastroidea Proctotrupoidea Stephanoidea Trigonaloidea
Synonyms
Terebrantia (preoccupied Terebrantia, Haliday, 1836, Thysanoptera)[1] Terebrantes[2][3][4]

Parasitica also contains groups of phytophagous hymenopterans such as the Cynipoidea (gall wasps).

References

1. Terebrantia (Insecta: Thysanoptera). LA Mound, AK Walker, Fauna of New Zealand, 1982
2. Evidence for monophyly and relationships of Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae, and Mymarommatidae (Hymenoptera: Terebrantes). GAP Gibson, The Canadian Entomologist, 1986
3. Das phylogenetische System der Hymenoptera Teil 3:“Terebrantes”(Unterordnung Apocrita). E Königsmann - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1978
4. Espèces nouvelles ou peu connues d'Hyménoptères térébrants. SCS van Vollenhoven, 1879
5. Parasitic Hymenoptera (Parasitica). RL Zuparko, Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2004
6. "Introduction". ParasiteWasp. wikidot. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

External links

• Parasitica at bugguide