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What does oligophagous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chiefly of insects) that feed on a restricted range of food
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Rearing the oligophagous Cactoblastis cactorum on meridic diets containing different nonhost proteins.
Psyllids are generally monophagous or narrowly oligophagous with respect to their angiosperm hosts.
As serious agricultural insect pests, cotton bollworms are euryphagous insects, but oriental tobacco budworms are oligophagous insects.
With only a few exceptions, the host plants of the oligophagous beetles are taxonomically related.
Polyphagous insects eat many plants that are unpalatable to oligophagous or monophagous species, even though all these insects may receive the same sensory information about plant chemistry.
Acquisition of a native host-plant by an introduced oligophagous herbivore.

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