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
Subgroups
Ceraphronoidea Evanioidea Ichneumonoidea Megalyroidea Stephanoidea Trigonaloidea Proctotrupomorpha Chalcidoidea Cynipoidea Diaprioidea Mymarommatoidea Platygastroidea Proctotrupoidea
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).