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UK Risk Register Details for Platypus quercivorus

This record was last updated on 06/06/2023

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced with the pathogen

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Non-squared wood
  • Squared wood

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Non-squared wood
  • Squared wood
  • Wood packaging material
  • Roundwood of oak with bark present

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

Likelihood [1 - 5] 2
Spread [1 - 5] 4
Impact [1 - 5] 4
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 8
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 40

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] 4
Impact [1 - 5] 4
Value at Risk [1 - 5] 5
Likelihood x Impact [1 - 25] 8
UK Relative Risk Rating [1 - 125] 40

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
Oceania
Papua New Guinea Present
Asia
China Present
India Present
Indonesia Present
Japan Present
Taiwan Present
Thailand Present
Vietnam Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Coleoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Quercus (oak)

Major Hosts

  • Castanea crenata Sieb. & Zucc.
  • Castanopsis cuspidata (Thunb.) Schottky
  • Cryptomeria japonica (L.F.) D.Don
  • Fagus crenata Blume
  • Lindera Thunb.
  • Lithocarpus edulis (Mak.) Nakai
  • Lithocarpus glaber (Thunb.) Nakai
  • Prunus L.
  • Quercus L.
  • Quercus acuta Thunb.
  • Quercus acutissima Carruth.
  • Quercus gilva Blume
  • Quercus glauca Thunb.
  • Quercus laurifolia Michx.
  • Quercus mongolica Fisch. Ex Turcz./Fisch. Ex Ledeb.
  • Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.
  • Quercus phillyraeoides Gray
  • Quercus robur L.
  • Quercus stenophyla (Blume) Makino
  • Quercus variabilis Blume

Threats to Protected Cultivation

  • N/A

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Broadleaved

Further Information

PRA Availability

USA, 2005

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Not currently listed

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action

General Comments

Ambrosia beetle vectoring fungal pest (Raffaelea quercivora), together causing impacts on oak in Japan and leading to potential tree mortality. Other potential beetle vectors are already present in the UK. The highest risk pathway is likely to be timber. A PRA will help to assess the risk further.

Further Information

Uncertainty

  • show / hide

Key uncertainty for pest

Susceptibility of UK oak species to the pathogen.

Climate

Current distribution

Hosts

Impact

Pathways

Regulation

Taxonomy

UK distribution

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