Not recorded since introduction. (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)
Introduced from Zanzibar in 1951 for biocontrol of Rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinocerus. (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.