EPPO Global Database

Dryocosmus kuriphilus(DRYCKU)

Distribution details in Russian Federation (the)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2025: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2016
From CABI Pest map 677 (2023): Present, restricted distribution
Comments
First found in Sochi National Park in 2016. It then expanded to practically all areas where sweet chestnut is growing.

EPPO Reporting Service (2025/255) : appears in the 2024 report of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation as a quarantine pest of limited distribution in Russia: present in 1 federal subject (22,351.2 ha).
References
* Anonymous (2020) Справочник по карантинному фитосанитарному состоянию территорий государств - участников СНГ на 01.01.2020 г. [Handbook of quarantine phytosanitary conditions in the territories of the CIS Member States as of 2020-01-01]. All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center. 92pp. Available at https://vniikr.ru/today/intercoll/inter-coord

* Gninenko YI (2020) Environmental risk assessment of Torymus sinensis, a specialized parasitoid of the oriental chestnut gall wasp. Dryocosmus kuriphilus. Plant Health and Quarantine no. 3, 41-51.

* Gninenko YI, Lyanguzov ME (2017) East chestnut gall wasps Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu, 1951 (Hymenoptera, Cynipidae)—New invader in the forests of the North Caucasus. Russian Journal of Biological Invasions 8, 206–211. https://doi.org/10.1134/S207511171703002X
------- First record.

* Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (2024) НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ДОКЛАД о карантинном фитосанитарном состоянии территории Российской Федерациив 2024 году [National report on the quarantine status on the territory of the Russian Federation in 2024], 33 pp (in Russian) https://fsvps.gov.ru/files/nacionalnyj-doklad-o-karantinnom-fitosanitarnom-sostojanii-territorii-rossijskoj-federacii-v-2024-godu/
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
China Hebei Present, no details view...
China Sichuan Present, no details view...
China Guangxi Present, no details view...
China Present, widespread view...
China Hunan Present, no details view...
China Jiangsu Present, no details view...
China Shaanxi Present, no details view...
China Shandong Present, no details view...
China Zhejiang Present, no details view...
China Liaoning Present, no details view...
China Anhui Present, no details view...
China Fujian Present, no details view...
China Gansu Present, no details view...
China Guangdong Present, no details view...
Finland Absent, no pest record view...