native to temperate Asia(4), adventive elsewhere (now tropicopolitan); in our area, recorded across the US & Canada (north to NS-QC-CA; in Canada, found occasionally in imported beans and does not survive in the wild(3)(5)(6)(7)
Food
hosts: various Fabaceae + Nelumbo (Nelumbonaceae)(3); known to switch to wild legumes in many areas outside its native range(4)
Remarks
widely used as lab model for research(3); may severely damage stored pulses of legumes(4)
Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.