 These were formerly a part of the paraphyletic "Parasitica", ranked as an infraorder.But the parasitic wasp lineages are not more closely related among themselves than they are related to non-parasitic wasps, thus the "Parasitica" are an obsolete group.Rather, the Evanioidea seem to be close relatives of the Megalyroidea, Trigonaloidea, and particularly the Ceraphronoidea.