Claim · #6495009
Teleonemia scrupulosa · herbivory · Lantana camara
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Lace bug, Teleonemia scrupulosa (Stal)”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 300
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Teleonemia scrupulosa is the canonical first classical weed biocontrol agent, released against lantana in Hawaii in 1902 and globally established.”
- entomologist · plausible
“T. scrupulosa (Tingidae) is the textbook lantana lace bug biocontrol agent, well-documented since the early 20th century in Hawaii and elsewhere.”
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