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Apanteles scutellaris

Muesebeck, 1921
Arthropoda » Hymenoptera » Braconidae » Apanteles scutellaris
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.

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