Claim · #6495091
Spilarctia oblique · herbivory · Cajanus cajan
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Spilarctia oblique on Pigeon pea”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 270
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Spilarctia (now Spilosoma) obliqua, the Bihar hairy caterpillar, is a well-known polyphagous defoliator of pulses including pigeon pea in India.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Spilosoma obliqua (formerly Spilarctia, Erebidae: Arctiinae) is a confirmed Cajanus cajan defoliator; the species epithet 'oblique' is a typo for 'obliqua' but identity is unambiguous.”
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