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UK Risk Register Details for Crisicoccus pini

This record was last updated on 28/11/2023

Common Names

  • Kuwana pine mealybug

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] 2
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

Provisional quarantine pest (Great Britain). Prohibition of key pathway, pest listed in bonsai derogogation

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 2
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
Monaco See Notes Unknown. Reported from Monaco, but unknown if still present.
Italy Present
Russia See Notes Recorded in parts of Eastern Asian Russia
North America
United States Present (Limited)
Asia
Taiwan Present
South Korea Present
China Present
Japan Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Hemiptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Pinus

Major Hosts

  • Abies Miller
  • Pinus coulteri D.Don
  • Pinus densiflora Sieb. & Zucc.
  • Pinus halepensis Mill.
  • Pinus koraiensis Sieb. & Zucc.
  • Pinus massoniana Lamb.
  • Pinus nigra Arnold
  • Pinus parviflora Sieb. & Zucc.
  • Pinus pinaster Soland In Ait.
  • Pinus pinea L.
  • Pinus radiata D.Don
  • Pinus tabulaeformis Carriere
  • Pinus thunbergii Parl.

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

PRA not available

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Provisional quarantine pest (Great Britain). EPPO A2

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action in Great Britain, and against findings on plants imported under the Japanese bonsai derogation

General Comments

Mealybug pest of pines, present in Northern Italy, as well as other areas outside Europe. Importers and traders of ornamental pine should source their plants carefully and may wish to monitor for its presence.

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