Claim · #6492521
Hylaeus (Nesoprosopis) spp. · parasitism · Hylaeus (Nesoprosopis) spp.
parasitism · effect: harmful
parasiteOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“five Hawaiian species of Hylaeus (Nesoprosopis) reported to be parasites of other species of the same subgenus”
- Authors
- Michener C.D.
- Year
- 2007
- Publication
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Page
- 35
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Intrageneric cleptoparasitism in Hylaeus is documented; source quote directly supports the structured claim of same-subgenus parasitism in Hawaiian species.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Intrageneric cleptoparasitism in Hylaeus is documented; same-subgenus parasitism among Hawaiian Nesoprosopis species is biologically consistent with known bee cleptoparasitism patterns.”
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