Chilocorus circumdatus

(Gyllenhall, 1808)

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Common name (English)

Red chilocorus

Ηabitat

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1968

Impacts

Unknown

Between 1968 and 1969, 265 C. circumdatus from India were introduced into Cyprus (Greathead 1976). The species established (CABI 2007), but no information on its impact on Lepidosaphes beckii was found (Gerber and Schaffner 2016).

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 Delémont pp. 118-127.