Annotated list of island lady beetles from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Author
Gonzalez, Guillermo
Sociedad Chilena de Entomología, Santiago, Chile
Author
Cotoras, Darko D.
0000-0003-1739-5830
Entomology Department, California Academy of Sciences. 55 Music Concourse Dr., Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. darkocotoras @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1739 - 5830
darkocotoras@gmail.com
Author
Grez, Audrey A.
Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias y Pecuarias, Universidad de Chile, Sta. Rosa 11735, Santiago, Chile.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-09-18
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Rhyzobius lophantae
(Blaisdell 1892)
(
Fig
4m
).
Examined
material: 9 exx. “
Chile
, Isla de Pascua, Hanga Roa,
27°09′24.6″ S
109°26′08.0″ W
,
21-IV-2006
, leg.
J. Mondaca
E.” (
MNHN
); 4 exx. same data, except by the dates “
16-VI-2006
” y “
18-IV-2006
” (
MNHN
)
.
Original reference:
Desender & Baert (1996)
: “
Lindorus lophanthae Blaisdell
, Easter Island, [Nr.59],
40m
,
30 November–20 December 1996
, Residential Gomero, culture zone, garden with open grassland (60% cover)”.
Comments: An Australian species (Tomaszewska 2010) used for biological control, introduced with this purpose in
Argentina
,
Uruguay
,
Perú
and
Chile
. In mainland
Chile
it is established between Arica and Talca (González 2006). Here, it was introduced in 1931 and 1944 to control
Planococcus citri (
Zúñiga 1985
)
, because it is a predator of
Pseudococcidae
. Currently, it is mass reared for the purpose of biological control.