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Eretmocerus · biocontrol · Aleyrodidae

biocontrol · effect: beneficial

preysOn GloBI relation

Verbatim source quote

“well-known endoparasitoids of whiteflies, nearly cosmopolitan”
Authors
Das B.C., et al.
Year
2021
Publication
Parasitoids in Pest Management (book chapter: Aphidiinae Parasitoids)
Page
300

AI critic verdicts

  • agroecologist · plausible

    “Eretmocerus is a well-known cosmopolitan whitefly parasitoid genus widely used in Bemisia and Trialeurodes biocontrol programs.”

  • entomologist · plausible

    “Eretmocerus spp. are endoparasitoids of whitefly nymphs (oviposit beneath the nymph) and are nearly cosmopolitan; this is core aphelinid biology.”

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