aleurodophagous
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Etymology edit
Possibly from translingual Aleyrodidae + -o- + -phagous
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aleurodophagous (not comparable)
- (very rare) That eats whitefly (of the family Aleyrodidae)
- 2009 November, Biological Control, volume 51, number 2, page 232:
- This review surveys the literature dealing with food relationships of coccidophagous, aleurodophagous and psyllophagous coccinellids.
- 2014, R. Canovai, “Ladybirds in Tuscan vineyards (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae”, in IOBC-WPRS, volume 105, page 241:
- Saharaoui & Gourreau (1994) list six different diets for lady beetles, which can be aphidophagous, coccidophagous, mycophagous, aleurodophagous, acarophagous and phytophagous.
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