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Parasitica

Parasitica (the parasitican wasps) is an obsolete, paraphyletic infraorder of Apocrita containing the parasitoid wasps. It includes all Apocrita except for the Aculeata. Parasitica has more members as a group than both the Symphyta and the Aculeata combined. Parasitica also contains groups of phytophagous hymenopterans such as the Cynipoidea (gall wasps).

SF: Evanioidea; F: Gasteruptiidae 

Gasteruptiidae

SF: Ichneumonoidea; F: Braconidae

Braconidae

SF: Ichneumonoidea; F: Ichneumonidae

Ichneumonidae