EPPO Global Database

Stephanitis pyrioides(STEPPY)

Distribution details in Netherlands

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 1999: Present, few occurrences
From CABI Pest map 768 (2012): Present, few occurrences
From NPPO: Present, few occurrences
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2000/005) : present in the province of Zuid-Holland from 1905 to 1910, but not reported again till 1995 when it was found in a nursery in Vleuten (province of Utrecht). Found again in 1998 on azalea bonsais from Japan in a nursery in Bleiswijk.
References
* Annual Report 1997, Diagnostic Centre, Plant Protection Service, 135 pp.

* Annual Report 1998, Diagnostic Centre, Plant Protection Service, 127 pp.

* Rabitsch W (2008) Alien true bugs of Europe (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 1827, 1-44.
------ Since 1904, according to Fokker AJF (1905) Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 48, 317-323..