Trachypetinae is a subfamily of the parasitic wasp family

Braconidae The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more undescribed. One analysis ...

. The family Trachypetidae was erected in 2020 for three rare Australian genera of large

parasitoid In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable str ...

wasps formerly included in the Braconidae, but was reduced to a subfamily in 2022.

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Apocrita families Ichneumonoidea {{ichneumonoidea-stub