Parasitoid wasp

Common Eichengallwespe ( Cynips quercusfolii )

Legimmen include how the Stechimmen ( Aculeata ) the subordination of the waist wasps ( Apocrita ) of the order Hymenoptera ( Hymenoptera). Inter alia, include Legimmen the Brackwespen, Zehrwespen, parasitic wasps and gall wasps. In the original definition of Legimmen the sawflies and gold wasps were included. Today's projected to Legimmen taxa were first grouped under the name parasitica. The name is also often used Terebrantia (also: Tere Brantes ) is synonymous to a subordination of the thrips. But it is also about a paraphyletic group, which must be divided with consistent application of the phylogenetic system into several groups. This is because that the Aculeata are not the sister group of the Legimmen as a whole, but have emerged from them. The actual sister group of Aculeata is controversial in science today. Among the mentioned candidates are the Evanioidea (hunger wasp -like ), the Trigon Alidae and Ichneumonoidea ( ichneumon -like ).

Most species use their ovipositor ( ovipositor ) to lay eggs in the still living host organisms and kill their host upon completion of larval development, so they live parasitoid, as already expressed by the name parasitica. Occasionally, all species that have this way of life are referred to as " parasitic wasps " because the adult animal from the host " slips " in the strict sense denote the parasitic wasps but only members of the family Ichneumonidae.

This ovipositor is therefore not yet converted, such as when the wasps to a military spine ( or sting called ).

The Legimmen not include social insects. This, such as ants or wasps real part of the aculeate.