BioConcepts

hyperparasitismHyperparasitismus (ger.)

• The condition of being hyperparasitic, as exemplified by certain Ichneumonidæ and Chalcididæ, the larvæ of which live in the bodies of other insect parasites. (OED 2011)
  category parasitism

  1878

  In Diptera I have observed the frequent occurrence of hyperparasitism, that is when the fly has deposited its egg on or in the larva of a Lepidopteron: the larva proceeding from that egg has become the prey of a Biophagan, and thus the original life has been forfeited; the life of the dipterous destroyer has also been forfeited; and the destroyer of the destroyer, or the hyperparasite, has been the only life to escape

  Newman, E. (1878). Collected observations on British Sawflies. The Entomologist, vol. 11, 147-154: 151.

  1910

  we may have here a case of social hyperparasitism- umbratus founding its colonies with the aid of niger, and fuliginosus with the aid of umbratus!

  Wheeler, W.M. (1910). An aberrant Lasius from Japan. Biol. Bull. 19, 130-137:135.