Claim · #6494349
Hylurgopinus rufipes · pathogen pressure · Ulmus americana
pathogen pressure · effect: harmful
pathogenOf GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“the native elm bark beetle (Hylurgopinus rufipes)”
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- Publication
- Unknown Plant Pathology Textbook
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- 530
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Hylurgopinus rufipes is a well-documented secondary vector of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi to Ulmus americana; mechanism, direction, and effect magnitude are all biologically consistent.”
- plant-pathologist · plausible
“Hylurgopinus rufipes is a well-documented vector of Ophiostoma novo-ulmi to Ulmus americana; direction, mechanism, and taxa are all correct.”
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