Apanteles scutellaris

Muesebeck, 1921

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Ηabitat

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1966

Impacts

Positive

Between 1966 and 1968, 11,928 A. scutellaris from India were introduced into Cyprus (Greathead 1976). The species has established (CABI 2007), but no information on its impact on P. operculla has been found.

Pathway

1 RELEASE IN NATURE - Biological Control – BC

References

Greathead DJ (1976) A Review of Biological Control in Western and Southern Europe. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux Slough, UK, 182 pp.

Gerber E, Schaffner U (2016) Chapter 2: European insect biocontrol agents released in Europe. In: Gerber E, Schaffner U (Eds) Review of invertebrate biological control agents introduced into Europe.CABI Switzerland, Rue des Grillons 1, CH-2800.