Claim · #6495127
Aclerda kahashii · pest pressure · Saccharum officinarum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Aclerdata kahashii Kuwana (Aclerdidae) infesting sugarcane”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 298
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aclerdid soft-scales of the genus Aclerda are known sugarcane stem feeders in South and East Asia; the spelling variant (kahashii vs takahashii) is a minor orthographic detail rather than a biological objection.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Aclerda takahashii Kuwana (Aclerdidae) is a documented sugarcane scale; the 'kahashii' spelling appears to be a transcription error of takahashii but the species/host pairing is correct.”
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