Ooencyrtus marcelloi is a parasitic wasp belonging to the family Encyrtidae. The species was first discovered in 2008 in a tropical lowland rainforest in the Soberanía National Park around Gamboa, Panama. The scientific name was first published in 2010.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Encyrtidae |
| Genus: | Ooencyrtus |
| Species: | O. marcelloi
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| Binomial name | |
| Ooencyrtus marcelloi Guerrieri & Noyes, 2010
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Female length 0.9 mm; male length 0.7-0.8 mm. The hosts of this parasitic wasp are eggs of Heliconiini butterflies. Parasitized eggs were found on passion vines: Passiflora auriculata, Passiflora biflora, Passiflora coriacea and Passiflora vitifolia. From one butterfly egg, a single wasp emerges.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ Guerrieri, E.; Huigens, M.E.; Estrada, C.; Woelke, J.B.; De Rijk, M.; Fatouros, N.E.; Aiello, A.; Noyes, J.S (2010). "Ooencyrtus marcelloi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), an egg parasitoid of Heliconiini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) on passion vines (Malpighiales: Passifloraceae) in Central America". Journal of Natural History. 44 (1–2): 81–87. doi:10.1080/00222930903362051. S2CID 86579849.
- ^ Noyes, J.S. (2012). Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids. Version as of June 2012
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