Parasitica

Group of wasps

Parasitica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 (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 also contains groups of phytophagous hymenopterans such as the Cynipoidea (gall wasps).

References

  1. ^ Terebrantia (Insecta: Thysanoptera). LA Mound, AK Walker, Fauna of New Zealand, 1982
  2. ^ Evidence for monophyly and relationships of Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae, and Mymarommatidae (Hymenoptera: Terebrantes). GAP Gibson, The Canadian Entomologist, 1986
  3. ^ Das phylogenetische System der Hymenoptera Teil 3:“Terebrantes”(Unterordnung Apocrita). E Königsmann - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1978
  4. ^ Espèces nouvelles ou peu connues d'Hyménoptères térébrants. SCS van Vollenhoven, 1879
  5. ^ Parasitic Hymenoptera (Parasitica). RL Zuparko, Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2004
  6. ^ "Introduction". ParasiteWasp. wikidot. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

External links

  • Parasitica at bugguide
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Extant Hymenopteran families
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Tenthredinoidea
  • Argidae (argid sawflies)
  • Blasticotomidae (fern sawflies)
  • Cimbicidae (cimbicid sawflies)
  • Diprionidae (conifer sawflies)
  • Pergidae (pergid sawflies)
  • Tenthredinidae (common sawflies)
Xyeloidea
Pamphilioidea
Siricoidea
  • Anaxyelidae (cedar wood wasps)
  • Siricidae (horntails)
Xiphydrioidea
  • Xiphydriidae (wood wasps)
Cephoidea
  • Cephidae (stem sawflies)
Orussoidea
  • Orussidae (parasitic wood wasps)
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Ichneumonoidea
  • Braconidae (braconids)
  • Ichneumonidae (ichneumon wasps)
Ceraphronoidea
Proctotrupomorpha
Platygastroidea
Cynipoidea
Proctotrupoidea (s.str.)
Diaprioidea
Mymarommatoidea
Chalcidoidea
(chalcid wasps)
Evanioidea
Stephanoidea
Megalyroidea
Trigonaloidea
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Chrysidoidea
Vespoidea
  • Rhopalosomatidae (rhopalosomatid wasps)
  • Vespidae (paper wasps, potter wasps, pollen wasps, yellowjackets, hornets)
Tiphioidea
Thynnoidea
  • Chyphotidae
  • Thynnidae (flower wasps)
  • Sierolomorphidae (sierolomorphid wasps)
Pompiloidea
  • Mutillidae (velvet ants)
  • Myrmosidae
  • Pompilidae (spider wasps)
  • Sapygidae (sapygid, or club-horned wasps)
Scolioidea
  • Scoliidae (scoliid wasps)
Formicoidea
  • Formicidae (ants)
Apoidea
Spheciformes
(sphecoid wasps)
Anthophila
(bees)
Taxon identifiers
Parasitica
  • Wikidata: Q43303344
  • NBN: NHMSYS0020470430
  • NZOR: c11cd627-23e3-4b0b-87e7-65cf9b75598f


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