Talk:Kleptoparasitism

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 02:27, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:27, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Many thanks! Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:29, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Images are appropriately tagged; you might think about rotating the lead image to get the horizon horizontal but that's not a GA issue.

• Done.

• What makes bugguide.net a reliable source? I see it's hosted by a university, but it says "We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office". There are the citations on the sentence it's attached to; do we need this cite?

• Removed.

• What makes environmentalgraffiti.com a reliable source? The about page gives almost no information.

• Replaced ref.

• "These insects are sometimes described as inquilines and brood parasites rather than kleptoparasites": I think it's not the naming that requires explanation here, but the division between kleptoparasitism and other strategies -- that is, should this say "some of these species are inquilines or brood parasites rather than kleptoparasites"?

• Yes, that's the meaning. Done.

• What's the difference between a kleptoparasitoid and a parasitoid?

• A parasitoid finds a host; a kleptoparasitoid watches a conspecific parasitoid finding a host, and 'steals' the host by laying its egg in or on it. I've re-read the paragraph in the article and it does cover this.

• Is kleptoparasitism the correct term for stealing from another member of the same species? Seems like there should be a distinction between the behaviour (food-stealing, which may be occasional or opportunistic) and the evolutionary strategy; kleptoparatism can't be a primary strategy if it's intraspecific, of course. This is just me speculating, though; if there's nothing on this sort of distinction in the sources there's nothing to say.

  The term is quite widely applied to conspecifics.

• I don't think the CBC is a good source to say whales stealing fish is kleptoparasitism; aside from the fact that it's not an evolutionary strategy and the source is not a good one for this, the interview calls it depredations, not kleptoparasitism.

• Removed. Found another cetacean example, described as "very rare".

• Not necessarily an issue, but what have you been able to find to confirm you have broad coverage here? If there's a big area of research missing from the article, I wouldn't know about it, so I'm asking if you've been able to find survey material that gives you an overview of what needs to be covered?

• I think we're ok here. For instance, Brockmann and Barnard (cited) say that among birds, a few orders contain most of the kleptoparasites. Literature search other than for birds turns up mostly insects, indeed mostly hymenoptera.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:48, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Fixes and/or replies look good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:34, 1 September 2022 (UTC)