EPPO Global Database

Xylotrechus chinensis(XYLOCH)

Distribution details in France

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Transient
First recorded in: 2018
Pest status declared by NPPO: Transient, actionable, under surveillance (2023-03)
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2018/220) : first found in October 2018 on a mulberry tree in a private garden in Sète (Hérault department).

EPPO Reporting Service (2019/098) : first found in July 2018 in Gironde, more details on the outbreak in Sète (Hérault department).

EPPO Reporting Service (2021/157) : caught near the harbour of Sète and established on ornamental Morus sp. in the city of Sète.

EPPO Reporting Service (2022/076) : Hérault and Gironde departments, considered as transient.

As of March 2022, listed as a temporary quarantine pest.

EPPO Reporting Service (2023/061) : further outbreaks in Hérault and Gironde departments.
References
* Arrêté du 11 mars 2022 portant établissement des listes d'organismes nuisibles au titre du 5° de l'article L. 251-3 du code rural et de la pêche maritime. JORF n°0063 du 16 mars 2022. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/arrete/2022/3/11/AGRG2135065A/jo/texte

* Cocquempot C, Desbles F, Mouttet R, Valladares L (2019) Xylotrechus chinensis (Chevrolat, 1852), nouvelle espèce invasive pour la France métropolitaine (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Clytini). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France 124(1), 27-62.

* NPPO of France (2018-10, 2022-04, 2023-03).

* 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
Germany Absent, intercepted only view...
Italy Present, restricted distribution view...
Spain Present, restricted distribution view...