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Lantana biocontrol
Lantana biocontrol agents have been released in Australia since 1914. Many of the agents are specific to one or several of the different lantana varieties found in Australia.
Biological control of lantana is a long-term control option and has had mixed results. The objective is to reduce plant viability and prevent its further spread by stressing plants and reducing seeding processes. In some cases it has resulted in die-back of the lantana plants.
The information sheets below describe each of the agents that have established within Australia:
- Teleonemia scrupulosa - bug (PDF, 238 kB)
- Uroplata girardi - beetle (PDF, 210 kB)
- Octotoma scabripennis - beetle (PDF, 233 kB)
- Ophiomyia lantanae - fly (PDF, 138 kB)
- Leptobyrsa decora - bug (PDF, 218 kB)
- Hypena laceratalis - moth (PDF, 277 kB)
- Salbia haemorrhoidalis - moth (PDF, 240 kB)
- Neogalea sunia - moth (PDF, 215 kB)
- Calycomyza lantanae - fly (PDF, 191 kB)
- Lantanophaga pusillidactyla - moth (PDF, 179 kB)
- Epinotia lantana - moth (PDF, 154 kB)
- Octotoma championi - beetle (PDF, 203 kB)
- Uroplata fulvopustulata - beetle (PDF, 219 kB)
- Phenacoccus parvus - bug (PDF, 161 kB)
- Aconophora compressa - bug (PDF, 267 kB)
- Falconia intermedia - bug (PDF, 228 kB)
- Prospodium tuberculatum - rust (PDF, 164 kB)
Further information
- Lantana in Queensland
- Biosecurity Queensland, Ph: 13 25 23
- Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002



