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Pest Categorisation of Popillia  SCIENTIFIC OPINION ADOPTED: 27 September 2018 doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5438 Pest categorisation of Popillia japonica EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Claude Bragard, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Marie-Agnes Jacques, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A Navas-Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen, Lucia Zappala, Ewelina Czwienczek and Alan MacLeod Abstract The Panel on Plant Health performed a pest categorisation of Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) for the EU. P. japonica is a distinguishable species listed in Annex IAII of Council Directive 2000/29/EC. It is native to Japan but established in the USA in the early 20th century. It spreads from New Jersey to most US states east of the Mississippi, some to the west and north into Canada. P. japonica feeds on over 700 plant species. Adults attack foliage and fruit surfaces. They can cause serious injury to tree fruits and soft fruit, vegetable crops, ornamental herbaceous plants, shrubs, vines and trees. Larvae are root feeders regarded as serious pests of lawns and turf, vegetables and nursery stock. Adults emerge during the summer and can fly short distances on warm sunny days. The life cycle is usually completed in one year. In cooler regions, development takes two years. P. japonica occurs in the EU in the Azores (Portugal), Lombardy and Piedmont (Italy) where it is under official control. Adults are suspected of being able to spread on aircraft as hitchhikers, i.e. without host plants. Soil accompanying plants for planting provides a pathway for further introductions. Hosts are widely available within the EU. Climatic conditions across central and parts of southern EU are suitable for development in one year. Across parts of northern Europe development over two years is likely. Without control, impacts could be expected on a range of plants. Phytosanitary measures are available to reduce the likelihood of introduction of P. japonica. All criteria assessed by EFSA for consideration as a potential Union quarantine pest are met. Plants for planting are not necessarily the main means of spread so P. japonica does not satisfy all criteria necessary for it to be regarded as a Union regulated non-quarantine pest (RNQP). © 2018 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. Keywords: hitch hiker, Japanese beetle, pest risk, plant health, plant pest, quarantine Requestor: European Commission Question number: EFSA-Q-2018-00489 Correspondence: [email protected] www.efsa.europa.eu/efsajournal EFSA Journal 2018;16(11):5438 Popillia japonica: Pest categorisation Panel members: Claude Bragard, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Francesco Di Serio, Paolo Gonthier, Marie-Agnes Jacques, Josep Anton Jaques Miret, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Alan MacLeod, Christer Sven Magnusson, Panagiotis Milonas, Juan A. Navas-Cortes, Stephen Parnell, Roel Potting, Philippe Lucien Reignault, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Wopke Van der Werf, Antonio Vicent Civera, Jonathan Yuen and Lucia Zappala. Acknowledgements: The PLH Panel wishes to thank the following for the support provided to this scientific output: Carsten Behring for providing map (Figure 4). Suggested citation: EFSA Plant Health Panel (EFSA PLH Panel), Bragard C, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jacques M-A, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas-Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Reignault PL, Thulke H-H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappala L, Czwienczek E and MacLeod A, 2018. Scientific Opinion on the pest categorisation of Popillia japonica. EFSA Journal 2018;16(11):5438, 30 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5438 ISSN: 1831-4732 © 2018 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Reproduction of the images listed below is prohibited and permission must be sought directly from the copyright holder: Figure 1: © EPPO; Figure 3: Eurostat / EuroGeographics Association The EFSA Journal is a publication of the European Food Safety Authority, an agency of the European Union. www.efsa.europa.eu/efsajournal 2 EFSA Journal 2018;16(11):5438 Popillia japonica: Pest categorisation Table of contents Abstract................................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Introduction................................................................................................................................4 1.1. Background and Terms of Reference as provided by the requestor.................................................. 4 1.1.1. Background ................................................................................................................................4 1.1.2. Terms of reference ...................................................................................................................... 4 1.1.2.1. Terms of Reference: Appendix 1................................................................................................... 5 1.1.2.2. Terms of Reference: Appendix 2................................................................................................... 6 1.1.2.3. Terms of Reference: Appendix 3................................................................................................... 7 1.2. Interpretation of the Terms of Reference....................................................................................... 8 2. Data and methodologies .............................................................................................................. 8 2.1. Data........................................................................................................................................... 8 2.1.1. Literature search ......................................................................................................................... 8 2.1.2. Database search ......................................................................................................................... 8 2.2. Methodologies............................................................................................................................. 9 3. Pest categorisation ...................................................................................................................... 10 3.1. Identity and biology of the pest.................................................................................................... 10 3.1.1. Identity and taxonomy................................................................................................................. 10 3.1.2. Biology of the pest ...................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.3. Intraspecific diversity................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.4. Detection and identification of the pest......................................................................................... 11 3.2. Pest distribution .......................................................................................................................... 12 3.2.1. Pest distribution outside the EU.................................................................................................... 12 3.2.2. Pest distribution in the EU............................................................................................................ 14 3.3. Regulatory status ........................................................................................................................ 14 3.3.1. Council Directive 2000/29/EC ....................................................................................................... 14 3.3.2. Legislation addressing the hosts of Popillia japonica....................................................................... 14 3.4. Entry, establishment and spread in the EU .................................................................................... 15 3.4.1. Host range.................................................................................................................................. 15 3.4.2. Entry .......................................................................................................................................... 16 3.4.3. Establishment ............................................................................................................................. 16 3.4.3.1. EU distribution of main host plants ............................................................................................... 17 3.4.3.2. Climatic conditions affecting establishment.................................................................................... 17 3.4.4. Spread ....................................................................................................................................... 19 3.5. Impacts .....................................................................................................................................
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