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Parasitica
Group of wasps / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Suborder: | Apocrita |
Infraorder: | Parasitica |
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Parasitica also contains groups of phytophagous hymenopterans such as the Cynipoidea (gall wasps).