Apanteles subandinus

Blanchard, 1947

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Ηabitat

I1 Arable

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1966

Impacts

Positive

Between 1966 and 1968, 17,306 A. subandinus from South America were introduced into Cyprus, where the species established and provided some control of P. operculella (Greathead 1976; Sankaran and Girling 1980).

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.