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Braconid Wasp

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The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps and, after the closely related Ichneumonidae, the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more believed undescribed; some analyses estimate a total between 30,000 and 50,000 species.

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