EPPO Global Database

Aculops fuchsiae(ACUPFU)

Distribution details in United Kingdom

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2015: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2007
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: at low prevalence (2015-10)
From CABI Pest map 716 (2009): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2007/170) : Present, first found in 2007 in one private garden in Southern England (Hampshire), under official control.

RHS (2020): widespread in Southern England, it has also spread northwards. First recorded in Wales in 2017. Also found

Regulated non-quarantine pest for Northern Ireland only (2020).
References
* INTERNET (last retrieved on 2007-09)
The British Fuchsia Society. http://www.thebfs.org.uk/Defra/notice1.html

* IPPC website. Official Pest Reports – United Kingdom (GBR-06/3 2015-10-30) Aculops fuchsiae - fuchsia gall mite. https://www.ippc.int/index.php

* NPPO of the United Kingdom (2014-06).

* RHS (2020) Fuchsia gall mite. available at https://www.rhs.org.uk/biodiversity/fuchsia-gall-mite. Accessed 2022-02.
------- include a map of findings 2007-2020.

* Salisbury A, Ostojá-Starzewski J, Halstead AJ (2014) The establishment of fuchsia gall mite, Aculops fuchsiae (Acari: Eriophyidae) in England, a serious pest of Fuchsia. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 27, 145-150.
------- widespread in southern England.