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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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