Telenomus molorchus · biocontrol · Spilarctia oblique

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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