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UK Risk Register Details for Tetropium fuscum

This record was last updated on 08/07/2021

Common Names

  • Brown spruce longhorn

Scenario and Pathways

Scenario for Risk Register

  • show / hide
  • Pest spreads to maximum extent

Pathway Assessed for Entry to UK

  • show / hide
  • Non-squared wood

Common Pathways

  • show / hide
  • Plants for planting (except seeds bulbs and tubers)
  • Non-squared wood
  • Wood packaging material

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

Regulation

Surveillance

Industry Scheme

Contingency Plan

Awareness

Research

Mitigated 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

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
Austria Present
Belgium Present
Bulgaria Present
Croatia Present
Czech Republic Present
Denmark Present
Estonia Present
Finland Present
France Present
Germany Present
Hungary Present
Italy Present
Latvia Present
Lithuania Present
Netherlands Present
Poland Present
Romania Present
Slovakia Present
Slovenia Present
Sweden Present
Türkiye Present
Belarus Present
Bosnia-Herzegovina Present
Moldova Present
Norway Present
Russia Present
Ukraine Present
Switzerland Present
Serbia Present
United Kingdom Present (Limited)
Ireland Present
Montenegro Present
North America
Canada Present (Limited)
Asia
Kazakhstan Present
Japan Present

Type of Pest

  • Insect (Coleoptera)

Host or Industry at Risk

  • show / hide

Picea

Major Hosts

  • Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.
  • Picea glauca (Moench) Voss
  • Picea mariana (Mill.) Britt., Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Picea orientalis (L.) Link
  • Picea pungens Engelm.
  • Picea rubens Sarg.
  • Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.
  • Pinus sylvestris Linnaeus

Threats to Protected Cultivation

  • N/A

Forest Tree Pests and Pathogens

  • Coniferous

Further Information

PRA Availability

UK (most recent update 2018)

Regulation and EPPO listing

  • show / hide

Not currently listed

Actions Indicated

  • show / hide

Action

No statutory action against interceptions and outbreaks in Great Britain.

General Comments

Longhorn beetle affecting spruce and pine, widespread in northern and central mainland Europe and established in parts of Great Britain.

Further Information

Uncertainty

  • show / hide

Key uncertainty for pest

Climate

Current distribution

Hosts

Impact

Pathways

Regulation

Taxonomy

UK distribution

Risk Records for this Pest