Chilocorus circumdatus
Common name (English)
Red chilocorus
Ηabitat
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Establishment status
Establishment status detail
Alien:
First detection year
1968
Impacts
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).
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.