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UK Risk Register Details for Elasmopalpus lignosellus

This record was last updated on 24/05/2021

Common Names

  • Lesser cornstalk borer

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Fruits or vegetables

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches
  • Fruits or vegetables
  • Hitchhiking
  • Cut Bamboo Canes
  • packing cases
  • stored products

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 5
Impact [1 - 5] 1
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 2
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 10

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 5
Impact [1 - 5] 1
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 2
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 10

Proposed Actions

Proposed Actions

Regulation

Deregulation

Management By Industry

Targeted Survey

PRA

Contingency Plan

Publicity

Research

Distribution and Pest Details

Distribution

Country / Territory Status Notes
Europe
United Kingdom Absent
North America
Mexico Present
United States Present
South America
Argentina Present
Bolivia Present
Brazil Present
Chile Present
Colombia Present
French Guiana Present
Guyana Present
Paraguay Present
Peru Present
Uruguay Present
Venezuela Present
Central America
Barbados Present
Bermuda Present
Costa Rica Present
Cuba Present
El Salvador Present
Guatemala Present
Jamaica Present
Nicaragua Present
Panama Present
Puerto Rico Present
Trinidad and Tobago Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Lepidoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

cereal, legume and tree seedling crops

Major Hosts

  • Alopecurus pratensis L.
  • Arachis hypogaea L.
  • Asparagus officinalis L.
  • Avena sativa L.
  • Beta vulgaris L.
  • Brassica napus L.
  • Brassica oleracea L.
  • Brassica rapa ssp. rapa L.
  • Capsicum annuum L.
  • Capsicum frutescens L.
  • Cornus florida L.
  • Cucumis melo L.
  • Cyperus esculentus L.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P.Beauv.
  • Euchlaena mexicana Schrad.
  • Fragaria x ananassa (Duchesne ex Weston) Duchesne ex Rozier
  • Glycine max (L.) Merr.
  • Gossypium L.
  • Hordeum vulgare L. em. Lam.
  • Juniperus silicicola (Small) Bailey
  • Linum usitatissimum L.
  • Solanum lycopersicum L.
  • Nyssa sylvatica Marshall
  • Oryza sativa L.
  • Phaseolus L.
  • Pinus L.
  • Pisum sativum Linnaeus
  • Platanus occidentalis L.
  • Raphanus sativus Linnaeus
  • Robinia pseudoacacia L.
  • Saccharum officinarum L.
  • Solanum tuberosum L.
  • Sorghum vulgare Pers.
  • Triticum aestivum L.
  • Vicia faba L.
  • Vigna Savi
  • Zea mays L.
  • Taxodium distichum (L.) Rich

Threats to Protected Cultivation

  • Both protected crops and outdoor production

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Broadleaved & Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

UK (2021)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Not currently listed

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

No statutory action

General Comments

Serious pest of cereal and legume crops in the Americas. The UK PRA concluded that this pest is unlikely to establish in the UK, but if it were to establish, the impacts would be very low.

Further Information

Uncertainty

  • show / hide

Key uncertainty for pest

Northerly limit of breeding population and impact on wild hosts

Climate

Current distribution

Hosts

Impact

Pathways

Regulation

Taxonomy

UK distribution

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