Claim · #6495131
Aonidiella aurantii · pest pressure · Citrus spp.
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“Aphytis melinus is a common biparental ectoparasitoid of Aonidiella aurantii”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 303
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aonidiella aurantii (California red scale) on citrus controlled by Aphytis melinus is one of the most cited classical biocontrol successes globally; the system is also relevant to Indian citrus.”
- entomologist · plausible
“A. aurantii is a key armored-scale pest of Citrus and Aphytis melinus is its biparental ectoparasitoid — a textbook host-parasitoid pairing.”
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