Amendment of Quarantine Pest List
Description
The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA), Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) in the Republic of Korea, has amended the quarantine pest list which is based on the result of a Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) and in accordance with the provisions of Articles 4 and 6 of the Ministerial Ordinance of the Plant Protection Act. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency notified to add 24 quarantine pest species as follows:
No. Scientific name Group Category
1 Candidatus phytoplasma phoenicium Bacteria Controlled Pest
2 Peach rosette phytoplasma Bacteria Controlled Pest
3 Lettuce infectious yellows virus Viruses Controlled Pest
4 Peach mosaic virus Viruses Controlled Pest
5 Potato black ringspot virus Viruses Controlled Pest
6 Raspberry leaf curl virus Viruses Controlled Pest
7 Squash leaf curl virus Viruses Controlled Pest
8 Strawberry latent C virus Viruses Controlled Pest
9 Tomato mottle virus Viruses Controlled Pest
10 Carduus tenuiflorus Weeds Controlled Pest
11 Brassica tournefortii Weeds Controlled Pest
12 Onopordum acanthium Weeds Controlled Pest
13 Cerambyx cerdo Coleoptera Controlled Pest
14 Hylobitelus xiaoi Coleoptera Controlled Pest
15 Sternechus subsignatus Coleoptera Controlled Pest
16 Camponotus compressus Hymenoptera Controlled Pest
17 Thaumetopoea pityocampa Lepidoptera Controlled Pest
18 Dargida procinctus Lepidoptera Controlled Pest
19 Acanthocoris scabrator Hemiptera Controlled Pest
20 Cochlochila bullita Hemiptera Controlled Pest
21 Dialeuropora dicempuncta Hemiptera Controlled Pest
22 Matsucoccus feytaudi Hemiptera Controlled Pest
23 Odonaspis saccharicaulis Hemiptera Controlled Pest
24 Pseudococcus orchidicola Hemiptera Controlled Pest