Orgilus parcus

Turner, 1922

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Ηabitat

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1967

Impacts

Unknown

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.

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.