Claim · #6495074
Megacopta cribraria · pest pressure · Glycine max
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Paratelenomus saccharalis phoretic on Megacopta cribraria on Dolichos lablab”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 271
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Megacopta cribraria is a documented plataspid pest of legumes and Paratelenomus saccharalis is its known scelionid egg parasitoid; the host-on-Lablab association is consistent with Indian field records.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Paratelenomus saccharalis is the canonical scelionid egg parasitoid of Megacopta cribraria (kudzu bug); the phoretic association on Lablab is biologically consistent with published Asian records.”
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