Ichneumonoidea

Ichneumonoidea Temporal range: Cretaceous-Present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Megarhyssa greenei female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Ichneumonoidea Latreille, 1802
Families
Braconidae Ichneumonidae †Praeichneumonidae

The superfamily Ichneumonoidea contains one extinct and three extant families, including the two largest families within Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae and Braconidae. The group is thought to contain as many as 100,000 species, many of which have not yet been described.^[1] Like other parasitoid wasps, they were long placed in the "Parasitica", variously considered as an infraorder or an unranked clade, now known to be paraphyletic.