Claim · #6492485
Coelioxys spp. · parasitism · Megachile spp.
parasitism · effect: harmful
parasiteOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“young larva of Coelioxys…has a large, usually more or less prognathous, sclerotized head and sickle-shaped mandibles”
- Authors
- Michener C.D.
- Year
- 2007
- Publication
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Page
- 34
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Coelioxys as cleptoparasite of Megachile is well-documented; sickle-shaped mandibles in first-instar larvae killing host eggs/larvae is a textbook mechanism consistent with the source quote.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Coelioxys is a well-documented cleptoparasite of Megachile; sickle-shaped mandibles in first-instar larvae killing host egg/larva is established biology consistent with the source quote.”
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