Claim · #6495136
Aphytis · biocontrol · Diaspididae
biocontrol · effect: beneficial
preysOn GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“ectoparasitoids of diaspidid scales, the most widely used in applied biocontrol”
- Authors
- Das B.C., et al.
- Year
- 2021
- Publication
- Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
- Page
- 295
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Aphytis is the most extensively used parasitoid genus in classical and augmentative biocontrol of armored scales (Diaspididae) globally, including the textbook Aphytis melinus / Aonidiella aurantii success in citrus.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Aphytis spp. are canonical ectoparasitoids of diaspidid scale insects and the genus's prominence in applied biocontrol (DeBach, Rosen) is uncontroversial.”
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