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UK Risk Register Details for Archips fuscocupreanus

This record was last updated on 10/07/2024

Common Names

  • Apple, tortrix

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Cut flowers or branches

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 4
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 24

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Prohibition of key hosts from parts of current range.

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 3
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 4
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 4
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 16

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
United States Present (Limited)
Asia
Russia Present Far East
South Korea Present
Japan Present
North Korea Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Lepidoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Orchard crops, Rosaceae

Major Hosts

  • Malus baccata (Linnaeus) Borkhausen
  • Malus bracteata Rehd.
  • Malus domestica Borkhausen
  • Malus glabrata Rehd.
  • Malus hupehensis (Pamp.) Rehd.
  • Malus ioensis (A.Wood) Britt.
  • Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh.
  • Malus sikkimensis (Wenzig) Koehne Ex Schneid.
  • Malus sylvestris (Linnaeus) Miller
  • Malus toringo var. toringo (Sieb.) Sieb. Ex De Vriese
  • Malus toringoides (Rehd.) Hughes
  • Malus yunnanensis (Franch.) Schneid.
  • Morus alba L.
  • Prunus L.
  • Pyrus communis L.
  • Pyrus pyraster Burgsd.
  • Rosa multiflora Thunb. Ex Murr.

Threats to Protected Cultivation

  • N/A

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Broadleaved

Further Information

PRA Availability

UK (1997)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Not currently listed

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action against findings

General Comments

Major moth pest in Japan which has spread to USA but no evidence it causes problems. Risk to UK mitigated by controls on some of the main hosts.

Further Information

Uncertainty

  • show / hide

Key uncertainty for pest

Climate

Current distribution

Hosts

Impact

Pathways

Regulation

Taxonomy

UK distribution

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