Copidosoma koehleri

Blanchard, 1940

Arthropoda » Hymenoptera » Encyrtidae » Copidosoma koehleri

Ηabitat

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1965

Impacts

Unknown

In 1965, a small number of C. koehleri was first released in Cyprus. In the following year, 874,500 specimens were sent from India to Cyprus and released (CIBC 1970; Greathead 1976). It is questionable whether the species has established permanently in Cyprus (CABI 2007).

Online resource

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/chalcidoids/database/d…

Pathway

1 RELEASE IN NATURE - Biological Control – BC

References

Rasplus J-Y, Villemant C, Paiva MR, Delvare G, Roques A (2010) Hymenoptera. BioRisk 4(2): 669–776. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.4.55

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.

Trjapitzin VA (1989) Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Fam. Encyrtidae of Palaearctics. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 158, 1–489.

Guerrieri E, Noyes JS (2005) Revision of the European species of Copidosoma Ratzeburg (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), parasitoids of caterpillars (Lepidoptera). Systematic Entomology 30(1), 97–174.