Orgilus gelechiae
Ηabitat
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Establishment status
Establishment status detail
Alien:
First detection year
1965
Impacts
Between 1965 and 1968, 30,205 H. gelechiae were introduced from the USA into Cyprus (CIBC 1970). According to Sankaran and Girling (1980), the species established permanently, but it was not reported to be present in Cyprus by Yu et al. (2005). No information on the impact of H. gelechiae on P. operculella was found.
References
CIBC (1970) Annual report. Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Farnham Royal, UK.
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.