EPPO Global Database

Popillia japonica(POPIJA)

Distribution details in Russian Federation (the)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2025: Present, restricted distribution
From CABI Pest map 16 (2024): Present, restricted distribution
From NPPO: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
Native to the far east (Kurile Islands, Vladivostok).

EPPO Reporting Service (1996/120) : confirmed as only in Sakhalin province.

Kurbatov (2013) also confirms that it only occurs on the Island of Kunashir (southermost island of the Greater Kurile Ridge - Sakhalin oblast).

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 (2,000 ha).
References
* Kurbatov SA (2013) Kunashir Island: area of special attention. Plant Health Research and Practice 2(4), 38-40.
------- Sporadically observed in the vicinity of Tretyakovo and Oziorniy (Kunashir Island) during an expedition in summer 2011.

* 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/

* NPPO of of Russia (1995).
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
China Xianggang (Hong Kong) Absent, unreliable record view...
China Jilin Absent, invalid record view...
China Heilongjiang Absent, invalid record view...
China Absent, invalid record view...
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Absent, unreliable record view...