Parasitica

{{Short description|Group of wasps}}

{{Automatic Taxobox

| taxon = Parasitica

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| image = Cynips quercusfolii.jpg

| subdivision_ranks = Subgroups

| subdivision =

• Ceraphronoidea
• Evanioidea
• Ichneumonoidea
• Megalyroidea
• Stephanoidea
• Trigonaloidea
• Proctotrupomorpha
• Chalcidoidea
• Cynipoidea
• Diaprioidea
• Mymarommatoidea
• Platygastroidea
• Proctotrupoidea

| synonyms =

• Terebrantia (preoccupied Terebrantia, Haliday, 1836, Thysanoptera)Terebrantia (Insecta: Thysanoptera). LA Mound, AK Walker, Fauna of New Zealand, 1982
• TerebrantesEvidence for monophyly and relationships of Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae, and Mymarommatidae (Hymenoptera: Terebrantes). GAP Gibson, The Canadian Entomologist, 1986Das phylogenetische System der Hymenoptera Teil 3:“Terebrantes”(Unterordnung Apocrita). E Königsmann - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1978Espèces nouvelles ou peu connues d'Hyménoptères térébrants. SCS van Vollenhoven, 1879

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Parasitica (the parasitican wasps) is an obsolete, paraphyletic infraorder of Apocrita containing the parasitoid wasps.Parasitic Hymenoptera (Parasitica). RL Zuparko, Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2004 It includes all Apocrita except for the Aculeata. Parasitica has more members as a group than both the Symphyta and the Aculeata combined. {{cite web |url=http://parasitewasp.wikidot.com/introduction |website=ParasiteWasp |title=Introduction|publisher=wikidot |access-date=8 July 2020}}

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