''Ooencyrtus'' is a genus of

chalcid wasp Chalcid wasps (, , for their metallic colour) are insects within the superfamily Chalcidoidea, part of the order Hymenoptera. The superfamily contains some 22,500 known species, and an estimated total diversity of more than 500,000 species, m ...

William Harris Ashmead William Harris Ashmead was an American entomologist born on 19 September 1855 at Philadelphia. He died 17 October 1908 at Washington D.C. After his studies in Philadelphia, Ashmead worked for the publisher J. B. Lippincott & Co. Later, he settled ...

named and

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

the genus in 1900.

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, approximately 320 species are recognized, including: * ''

Ooencyrtus anabrivorus ''Ooencyrtus'' is a genus of chalcid wasp. William Harris Ashmead named and circumscribed the genus in 1900. Species , approximately 320 species are recognized, including: * '' Ooencyrtus anabrivorus'' * ''Ooencyrtus clisiocampae'' * '' Ooencyr ...

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Ooencyrtus clisiocampae ''Ooencyrtus'' is a genus of chalcid wasp. William Harris Ashmead named and circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a p ...

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Ooencyrtus johnsoni ''Ooencyrtus'' is a genus of chalcid wasp. William Harris Ashmead named and circumscribed the genus in 1900. Species , approximately 320 species are recognized, including: * ''Ooencyrtus anabrivorus'' * ''Ooencyrtus clisiocampae'' * '' Ooencyrt ...

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Ooencyrtus kuvanae ''Ooencyrtus kuvanae'' is a species of chalcid wasp. It was introduced to North America in 1908 to control ''Lymantria ''Lymantria'' is a genus of tussock moths in the family Erebidae. They are widely distributed throughout Europe, Japan, Indi ...

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Ooencyrtus marcelloi ''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 publi ...

'' * '' Ooencyrtus papilionis''

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