Claim · #6495079
Telenomus spp. · biocontrol · Lepidoptera
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Members of genus Telenomus primarily parasitoids of Lepidoptera”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 268
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Telenomus (Scelionidae) is well-documented as a predominantly lepidopteran egg parasitoid genus and a foundational biocontrol agent in IPM literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Genus-level egg-parasitism of Lepidoptera by Telenomus matches Johnson 1984 and standard scelionid taxonomy; species count (~600+) is consistent with current Universal Chalcidoidea Database / Scelionidae records.”
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