Created Tuesday 07 March 2023
Succubi are holometabolic. It's their adult versions that are edible.
I'll have to think about their nymphs.
Oh, and they're of course primarily consumers. That's a given. They eat and eat.
There are enough "breakthrough" cases in Succuban evolution to warrant them being both contagious and to have a high mortality. They can sometimes "eat through" a species and right on to the next. Sometimes species make contact and the Succubi try to be right there to hop on through to the next vast region of space to colonize. It's O.K. to burn a few bridges back. I mean, if there is anything left of the civilzation they ate through to eat through again, then sure, they'll settle in for the long meal.
But they rarely do. They rely so heavily on adapting to wildly different environments---and similarly to the Blattids---are thus also adpated to fine-tuning their own evolution. But theirs is only in trying to slow down and speed up their own rates of being comsumed. That's the only lever Succubihave, unlike the many intergenerational "tales" Blattids can pull off.
But it works well. They can thus not only moderate their impact on their host species (at least in one way), but thus also the evolutionary burden they place on their host. To their own and/or their host's potential betterment. Or they cut bait, and use all of the calories they can burn to shoot off in desperate hope for an other species.