Platynota stultana(PLAAST)
Distribution details in Italy
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated
2025: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2020
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, only in some parts of the Member State concerned (2024-12)
First recorded in: 2020
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, only in some parts of the Member State concerned (2024-12)
EPPO Reporting Service (2023/058) : first caught in a light trap in 2020. Monitoring surveys in 2022 in Puglia detected 11 specimens in traps. Not clear if established.
EPPO Reporting Service (2025/055) : first recorded in Campania in 2024.
Goglia et al. (2026): considered established in Southern Italy, incl. Sicily.
EPPO Reporting Service (2025/055) : first recorded in Campania in 2024.
Goglia et al. (2026): considered established in Southern Italy, incl. Sicily.
* Goglia L, Formisano G, Guastaferro VM, Albano L, Crispo DG, Griffo R, Di Prisco G, Giorgini M (2025) The Invasive Nearctic Pest Platynota stultana Walsingham (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Is Established in Southern Italy. Insects 17(1), 122.
* NPPO of Italy (2024-12).
* Trematerra P (2022) New taxa for the Italian Lepidoptera Tortricidae fauna. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 54, 10419. https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2022.10419
------- 1 specimen in a light trap in Apulia in August and September 2020.
* Trematerra P, Colacci M (2022) Platynota stultana Walsingham, 1884 (Lepidoptera Tortricidae) found in Italy, invasive pest in Europe. Redia 105, 183-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.19263/REDIA-105.22.23
* NPPO of Italy (2024-12).
* Trematerra P (2022) New taxa for the Italian Lepidoptera Tortricidae fauna. Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research 54, 10419. https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2022.10419
------- 1 specimen in a light trap in Apulia in August and September 2020.
* Trematerra P, Colacci M (2022) Platynota stultana Walsingham, 1884 (Lepidoptera Tortricidae) found in Italy, invasive pest in Europe. Redia 105, 183-189. http://dx.doi.org/10.19263/REDIA-105.22.23
| Country | State | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | Transient | ||
| Switzerland | Absent, unreliable record |