Claim · #6493370
Opisina arenosella · pest pressure · Borassus flabellifer
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“first record of this pest in India was from Coimbatore in 1907 on Palmyra plants”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 154
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Opisina arenosella is a well-documented defoliator of palms including Borassus flabellifer; source quote directly supports the historical India/Coimbatore/1907 claim and host assignment.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Opisina arenosella is a well-documented leaf-mining/skeletonizing pest of palms including Borassus flabellifer; the source quote directly supports the structured historical record claim.”
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