Pest categorisation of Oligonychus perditus.

ABSTRACT: The Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of the spider mite Oligonychus perditus Pritchard and Baker (1955) (Acari, Tetranychidae), for the EU. O. perditus is a well-defined and distinguishable species, native to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and recognised mainly as a pest of Juniperus spp., Chamaecyparis spp. and Platycladus spp. It is absent from the EU and is listed in Annex IIAI of Directive 2000/29/EC. Its host plants, Juniperus spp. and Chamaecyparis spp., are also listed in Annex III of Directive 2000/29/EC. Plants for planting, cut flowers and branches are considered as pathways for this pest, which is also able to disperse naturally with the wind, over rather short distances. O. perditus has repeatedly been intercepted in the EU but does not appear to have esta

SUBMITTER: EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010166 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature