Pest categorisation of Popillia quadriguttata
Claude Bragard, Paula Baptista, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A. Navas‐Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault

TL;DR
This paper assesses the risk of Popillia quadriguttata, a harmful insect pest, entering and establishing in the European Union.
Contribution
The paper provides a comprehensive pest categorization for Popillia quadriguttata as a potential Union quarantine pest.
Findings
Popillia quadriguttata is a polyphagous pest with a wide range of host plants, including economically and environmentally important species.
The EU is considered suitable for the pest's establishment due to favorable biotic and abiotic factors.
Phytosanitary measures can reduce the risk of its introduction into the EU.
Abstract
The EFSA Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Popillia quadriguttata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), following a commodity risk assessment of bonsai Pinus parviflora grafted onto P. thunbergii from China, in which P. quadriguttata was identified as a pest of possible concern for the territory of the European Union. This is a univoltine polyphagous pest that occurs in eastern Asia from Vietnam northwards through eastern China and Taiwan, South Korea and into Far East Russia. Hosts include species of fruit trees within the genera Malus and Prunus, trees of forestry and environmental importance such as Quercus and Ulmus, shrubs such as Wisteria, soft fruit such as Rubus, grasses, including amenity turf and field crops such as potatoes, maize and soybean. Adults feed on host leaves, tender stems, flower buds, flowers and fruits; larvae feed on host roots. In northern China…
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TopicsResearch on scale insects · Insect-Plant Interactions and Control · Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
