TY - JOUR
T1 - Pest categorisation of non-EU Pissodes spp
AU - Jeger, Michael
AU - Bragard, Claude
AU - Caffier, David
AU - Candresse, Thierry
AU - Chatzivassiliou, Elisavet
AU - Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina
AU - Gilioli, Gianni
AU - Jaques Miret, Josep Anton
AU - Macleod, Alan
AU - Navajas Navarro, Maria
AU - Niere, Björn
AU - Parnell, Stephen
AU - Potting, Roel
AU - Rafoss, Trond
AU - Rossi, Vittorio
AU - Urek, Gregor
AU - Van Bruggen, Ariena
AU - Van Der Werf, Wopke
AU - West, Jonathan
AU - Winter, Stephan
AU - Kenis, Marc
AU - Kertész, Virág
AU - Grégoire, Jean-Claude
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Panelon Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of the non-EU Pissodes spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). They constitute a well-defined taxon, with non-EU species distributed in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, China, Japan, Korea, Russia and South Africa, some of which are recognised as severe pests of conifers, mainly Pinus spp. and Picea spp., or vector pathogens. The immature stages either live in the phloem and cambium of healthy, weakened or dead trees, or in the terminal shoots of living trees. They are listed as quarantine pests in Annex IAI of Directive 2000/29/EC. Plants for planting, branches of conifers and non-squared wood are considered as pathways. The pest can also disperse by hitchhiking, and fly over kilometres. The adults are long-lived (up to 4 years). They feed by puncturing the bark of stems or shoots. Females lay eggs in chewed-out cavities in the bark. The life cycle varies with species and local climatic conditions. At the end of the larval stage, the larva excavates a pupal cell between the sapwood and the bark, in the sapwood or in terminal shoots. Pissodes spp. overwinter as adults in the litter or as larvae or teneral adults in the galleries or pupal cells. The current geographic range of the non-European Pissodes spp. suggests that many of them may establish in the EU territory, where their hosts are widely present. We list some species which, if introduced to the EU, would most probably have an economic impact on plantations or may interfere with forest ecosystem processes although they are mainly abundant and damaging in intensively managed monocultures. All criteria for considering those non-EU Pissodes spp. as potential quarantine pests are met. The criteria for considering them as non-regulated quarantine pests are not met because they are absent from the EU territory. (C) 2018 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority.
AB - The Panelon Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of the non-EU Pissodes spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). They constitute a well-defined taxon, with non-EU species distributed in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, China, Japan, Korea, Russia and South Africa, some of which are recognised as severe pests of conifers, mainly Pinus spp. and Picea spp., or vector pathogens. The immature stages either live in the phloem and cambium of healthy, weakened or dead trees, or in the terminal shoots of living trees. They are listed as quarantine pests in Annex IAI of Directive 2000/29/EC. Plants for planting, branches of conifers and non-squared wood are considered as pathways. The pest can also disperse by hitchhiking, and fly over kilometres. The adults are long-lived (up to 4 years). They feed by puncturing the bark of stems or shoots. Females lay eggs in chewed-out cavities in the bark. The life cycle varies with species and local climatic conditions. At the end of the larval stage, the larva excavates a pupal cell between the sapwood and the bark, in the sapwood or in terminal shoots. Pissodes spp. overwinter as adults in the litter or as larvae or teneral adults in the galleries or pupal cells. The current geographic range of the non-European Pissodes spp. suggests that many of them may establish in the EU territory, where their hosts are widely present. We list some species which, if introduced to the EU, would most probably have an economic impact on plantations or may interfere with forest ecosystem processes although they are mainly abundant and damaging in intensively managed monocultures. All criteria for considering those non-EU Pissodes spp. as potential quarantine pests are met. The criteria for considering them as non-regulated quarantine pests are not met because they are absent from the EU territory. (C) 2018 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority.
KW - Curculionidae
KW - European Union
KW - Pest risk
KW - Pine weevils
KW - Plant health
KW - Plant pest
KW - Quarantine
KW - Curculionidae
KW - European Union
KW - Pest risk
KW - Pine weevils
KW - Plant health
KW - Plant pest
KW - Quarantine
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/143959
U2 - 10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5300
DO - 10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5300
M3 - Article
SN - 1831-4732
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 29
JO - EFSA Journal
JF - EFSA Journal
ER -