Orgilus parcus
Ηabitat
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Establishment status
Establishment status detail
Alien:
First detection year
1967
Impacts
In 1967/68, 40,425 specimens of O. lepidus were introduced from India into Cyprus, where it established (Greathead 1976). No information on the impact of this species on P. operculella was found.
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.