Established. (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 Zanzibar for biocontrol of Rhinoceros beetle Oryctes rhinocerus. 89 females, 6 males were originally introduced. They are now well established, but ineffective (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.