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UK Risk Register Details for Malacosoma parallela

This record was last updated on 10/12/2021

Common Names

  • Mountain ring silk moth

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide

Common Pathways

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

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 3
Spread [1 - 5] 4
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 6
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 30

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Prohibition of major pathway

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 4
Impact [1 - 5] 2
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 4
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 20

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
Türkiye Present
Asia
Russia Present
Iran Present
Afghanistan Present
Turkmenistan Present
Uzbekistan Present
Kazakhstan Present
Kyrgyzstan Present
Tajikistan Present
China Present
Armenia Present
Georgia Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Lepidoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Orchard crops, broadleaved trees

Major Hosts

  • Berberis integerrima Bunge
  • Chaenomeles japonica (Thunb.) Lindl. Ex Spach
  • Cotoneaster insignis Pojark.
  • Crataegus L.
  • Cydonia oblonga Mill.
  • Malus Mill.
  • Malus domestica Borkhausen
  • Malus sieversii (Ledeb.) M.J.Roem.
  • Prunus L.
  • Prunus bucharica (Korsh.) Fedtsch.
  • Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A.Webb
  • Pyrus communis L.
  • Quercus infectoria Oliv.
  • Quercus macranthera Fisch. & Mey. Ex Hohen.
  • Quercus robur L.
  • Rosa L.
  • Rosa canina L.
  • Rosa corymbifera Borkh.
  • Salix L.
  • Salix excelsa S.G.Gmel.
  • Sorbus L.

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Broadleaved

Further Information

PRA Availability

EPPO (2003), UK (2014)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

EPPO A2

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

No statutory action

General Comments

Polyphagous moth pest of deciduous trees and shrubs. Based on its current distribution, it is unlikely to reach damaging levels if introduced to the UK.

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