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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.

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Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Apocrita
Image
Cynips quercusfolii.jpg
Said to be same as
parasitoid wasp
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taxon rank
infraorder
taxon name
Parasitica
topic's main category
Category:Parasitica
different from
Terebrantia
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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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parasitica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.