Claim · #6492355
Parapoynx badiusalis · herbivory · Potamogeton praelongus
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“caterpillars feeding and making day refugia on two native submerged macrophytes”
- Authors
- Andow D.A., Ragsdale D.W., Nyvall R.F.
- Year
- 1997
- Publication
- Westview Press / Routledge
- Page
- 59
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Parapoynx (Petrophila) species are well-documented aquatic pyralid larvae that feed on submerged macrophytes; herbivory on Heteranthera dubia is biologically consistent.”
- entomologist · uncertain
“Parapoynx badiusalis feeding on aquatic macrophytes is biologically plausible for aquatic pyralid larvae, but the source quote references 'two native submerged macrophytes' without specifically naming H. dubia, leaving species-level assignment unverified.”
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