Clypeaspis trilineata (Mulsant)

(Fig. 8c)

Hyperaspis trilineata Mulsant, 1850: 667 .– Crotch 1874: 227; Korschefsky 1931: 198.

Clypeaspis trilineata: Gordon & Canepari 2008: 279 (change of combination).

Clypeaspis trilineata (Mulsant, 1850) (Fig. 8c), originally described as Hyperaspis trilineata, is a species distributed in the Caribbeans, USA and South America (Gordon & Canepari 2008; González 2009; CABI 2021b). It was introduced in India from Barbados in 1970 (as H. trilineata) by the erstwhile Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Indian Station (Bangalore), for use against the sugarcane mealybug, Saccharicoccus sacchari (Cockerell), but it did not establish (Sankaran 1974; Poorani 2002).