Thorpe Stephen E
School of Biological Sciences (Tamaki Campus), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Biodivers Data J. 2013 Sep 16(1):e959. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.1.e959. eCollection 2013.
In 1921, Scutellistacaerulea was imported and released in Nelson, New Zealand, for the biological control of pest scale insects. It was thought to have failed to establish, and is therefore currently considered to be absent from the New Zealand fauna. On 17 April 2013, a live specimen was captured in the wild in Auckland.
1921年,为对害虫蚧虫进行生物防治,新西兰尼尔森引进并放生了蓝盾瓢虫。当时人们认为它未能成功定殖,因此目前新西兰动物区系中被视为没有这种瓢虫。2013年4月17日,在奥克兰的野外捕获了一只活体标本。