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Parasitoid wasps influenced the thinking of Charles Darwin. [b] In an 1860 letter to the American naturalist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars."
The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species described as of 2016 [update] . [ 2 ]
The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta"). Currently, about 93 extant and four fossil species are known. [2]
Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1912-1916. Bibliographia zoologica. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896-1934. ... Chinese fauna of parasitic wasps on scale insects.
Commonly known as cuckoo wasps or emerald wasps, the hymenopteran family Chrysididae is a very large cosmopolitan group (over 3000 described species) of parasitoid or kleptoparasitic wasps, often highly sculptured, [1] with brilliant metallic colors created by structural coloration. [2]
Latina rugosa planidia (arrows, magnified) attached to an ant larva Stilbula quinqueguttata from Australia. The Eucharitidae are a family of parasitic wasps. [1] Eucharitid wasps are members of the superfamily Chalcidoidea and consist of four subfamilies: Akapalinae, Eucharitinae, Gollumiellinae, and Oraseminae. [2]
Proctotrupidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea. There are about 400 species in more than 30 genera in Proctotrupidae, found throughout most of the world. There are about 400 species in more than 30 genera in Proctotrupidae, found throughout most of the world.
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.