Claim · #6494800
Maruca testualis · herbivory · Glycine max
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Maruca testualis and Matsumuraeses phaseoli larvae feed and cause damage by scraping or boring”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 300
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Maruca testulalis (often spelled testualis in older literature) is a recognized legume pod borer of soybean and cowpea, especially in tropical Asia/Africa.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Legume pod borer (Crambidae; modern genus Maruca vitrata, formerly testulalis) larvae bore into legume pods; identity matches the cited textbook usage.”
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