EPPO Global Database

Trichoferus campestris(HESOCA)

Distribution details in France

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2022: Absent, intercepted only
Comments
Intercepted in June 2002 in Marseille. About 10 specimens emerged in the quarantine facility of Marseille harbour from timber (Salix sp.) imported from China. This wood had been received in August 2001 and stored (it was intented to be used to make wood packaging material).

EPPO Reporting Service (2021/157) : intercepted in 2020 in the harbour of Huningue (Alsace).
References
* Cocquempot C (2006) Alien longhorned beetles (Coleoptera Cerambycidae): Original interceptions and introductions in Europe, mainly in France, and notes about recently imported species. Redia 89, 35-50.

* Cocquempot C, Henin JM, Jourez B, Rapuzzi P, Roques A, Drumont A (2022) État de l’invasion de Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835) au plan international et réflexion sur sa première interception en Belgique (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Hesperophanini). Belgian Journal of Entomology, 129, 1–24.

* Roques A, Bernard A, Courtin C, Denux O, Roques O, Auger-Rozenberg MA (2021) Bilan des piégeages 2020 dans les ports d’entrée et en forets avec le mélange générique attractif pour les xylophages exotiques envahissants. Rapport INRAE URZF Orléans, 13 pp.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Belgium Absent, pest no longer present view...
Germany Present, few occurrences view...
Italy Absent, intercepted only view...