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UK Risk Register Details for Tephritis ovatipennis

This record was last updated on 05/12/2023

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest is introduced

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Cut flowers or branches

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Cut flowers or branches

Risk Ratings and Current Mitigations

Unmitigated Risks

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

Current Mitigations

  • show / hide

Key mitigation for pest

Regulated quarantine pest (Northern Ireland)

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated Risks

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

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
Canada Present
United States Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Diptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Major Hosts

  • Achillea millefolium L.
  • Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt.
  • Artemisia tridentata Nutt.
  • Baccharis L.
  • Chrysothamnus Nutt.
  • Machaeranthera Nees
  • Solidago canadensis L.
  • Erigeron glaucus Ker Gawler
  • Corethrogyne De Candolle
  • Dieteria canescens (Pursh) Nuttall
  • Erigeron lonchophyllus Hooker
  • Hulsea californica A. Gray
  • Hulsea vestita A. Gray
  • Solidago confinis A. Gray

Threats to Protected Cultivation

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

Further Information

PRA Availability

PRA not available

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Regulated quarantine pest (Northern Ireland)

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

Statutory action in Northern Ireland. No statutory action in Great Britain.

General Comments

Fruit fly from North America which feeds on flower and seed heads of a range of hosts, mainly in the Asteraceae, though it apparently causes little damage. Considered to be of little phytosanitary risk to the UK.

Risk Records for this Pest