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UK Risk Register Details for Xanthaciura insecta

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
Mexico Present
United States Present
South America
Venezuela Present
Brazil Present
Central America
Bahamas Present
Bermuda Present
Cuba Present
Guatemala Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Diptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Major Hosts

  • Bidens alba (Linnaeus) De Candolle
  • Bidens squarrosa H.B.K.
  • Cosmos sulphureus Cavanilles
  • Dahlia coccinea Cav.
  • Ageratum littorale A. Gray
  • Bidens brasiliensis Sherff

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 the warmer parts of the Americas, which feeds on flower and seed heads of hosts mainly in the Asteraceae. Considered to be of little phytosanitary risk to the UK.

Risk Records for this Pest