They were seen in 1960, but there is no evidence of establishment and none were collected in 1971 (Hutson, A.M. (1981) ‘A preliminary list of insects of Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Archipelago’, Atoll Research Bulletin, 243, pp. 1–29. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.243.1)
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Introduced from Trinidad for biocontrol of Rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinocerus. They were seen in 1960, but there is no evidence of establishment and none were collected in 1971 (Hutson, A.M. (1981) ‘A preliminary list of insects of Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Archipelago’, Atoll Research Bulletin, 243, pp. 1–29. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.243.1)
Hutson, A.M. (1981) ‘A preliminary list of insects of Diego Garcia Atoll, Chagos Archipelago’, Atoll Research Bulletin, 243, pp. 1–29. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.243.1.; Zoological Society of London (2022) A List of the Terrestrial Invertebrates of BIOT, (Including Ecology, Biology, Conservation, Distribution and Collection Notes). Dataset.