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. 2022 Jan 27;20(1):e07025. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7025

Table 9.

‘Positive’ and ‘negative’ pests included in the reference data set

Taxonomy Source project( a ) Taxonomy Source project( a )
Positive reference pests Negative reference pests
Acrobasis pirivorella Insect PC_QP African cassava mosaic virus Virus None( b )
Agrilus anxius Insect PP Apple geminivirus Virus PC no QP
Agrilus planipennis Insect PP Apple hammerhead viroid Viroid PC no QP
Anastrepha ludens Insect PP Hirschmanniella behningi Nematode PC no QP
Anoplophora chinensis Insect PP Margarodes floridanus Insect PC no QP
Anoplophora glabripennis Insect PP Neomargarodes cucurbitae Insect PC no QP
Anthonomus eugenii Insect PP non‐EU potato virus A Virus PC no QP
Apiosporina morbosa Fungus PC_QP Prunus geminivirus A Virus PC no QP
Aromia bungii Insect PP Small‐spored Alternaria Fungus PC no QP
Arrhenodes minutus Insect PC_QP Wild vitis virus 1 Virus PC no QP
Bactericera cockerelli Insect PP
Bactrocera dorsalis Insect PP
Bactrocera kirki Insect PC_QP
Bactrocera zonata Insect PP
Bretziella fagacearum Fungus PP
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Nematode PP
Candidatus Liberibacter africanus, C. L. asiaticus, C. L. americanus Bacteria PP
Coniferiporia sulphurascens Fungus PC_QP
Conotrachelus nenuphar Insect PP
Dendrolimus sibiricus Insect PP
Grapholita inopinata Insect PC_QP
Phyllosticta citricarpa Fungus PP
Popillia japonica Insect PP
Rhagoletis pomonella Insect PP
Satsuma dwarf virus Virus PC_QP
Spodoptera eridania Insect PC_QP
Spodoptera frugiperda Insect PP
Thaumatotibia leucotreta Insect PP
Thrips palmi Insect PP
Tilletia indica Fungus PP
Toxoptera citricida Insect PC_QP
Xanthomonas citri Bacterium PP
Xylella fastidiosa Bacterium PP
(a)

‘PC_QP’: pests recommended by EFSA pest categorisations as candidates to the EU quarantine regulation (positive reference). ‘PC no QP’: pests not fulfilling all the criteria to be recommended as candidates to the EU quarantine regulation (negative reference). ‘PP’: pests recommended by EFSA as candidates to the category of priority pests (positive reference pests).

(b)

‘none’: negative reference pest from the previous methodology.