Parasitica

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); Terebrantes;

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

References

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

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