Plants or plant products imported into Korea
Proposed draft amendment of quarantine pest list
The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency (APQA), Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) in the Republic of Korea, has amended the quarantine pest list which is based on the result of a Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) and in accordance with the provisions of Articles 4 and 6 of the Ministerial Ordinance of the Plant Protection Act. The Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency notified to add 24 quarantine pest species as follows:
No. | Scientific name | Group | Category |
1 | Candidatus phytoplasma phoenicium | Bacteria | Controlled Pest |
2 | Peach rosette phytoplasma | Bacteria | Controlled Pest |
3 | Lettuce infectious yellows virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
4 | Peach mosaic virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
5 | Potato black ringspot virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
6 | Raspberry leaf curl virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
7 | Squash leaf curl virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
8 | Strawberry latent C virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
9 | Tomato mottle virus | Viruses | Controlled Pest |
10 | Carduus tenuiflorus | Weeds | Controlled Pest |
11 | Brassica tournefortii | Weeds | Controlled Pest |
12 | Onopordum acanthium | Weeds | Controlled Pest |
13 | Cerambyx cerdo | Coleoptera | Controlled Pest |
14 | Hylobitelus xiaoi | Coleoptera | Controlled Pest |
15 | Sternechus subsignatus | Coleoptera | Controlled Pest |
16 | Camponotus compressus | Hymenoptera | Controlled Pest |
17 | Thaumetopoea pityocampa | Lepidoptera | Controlled Pest |
No. | Scientific name | Group | Category |
18 | Dargida procinctus | Lepidoptera | Controlled Pest |
19 | Acanthocoris scabrator | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |
20 | Cochlochila bullita | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |
21 | Dialeuropora dicempuncta | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |
22 | Matsucoccus feytaudi | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |
23 | Odonaspis saccharicaulis | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |
24 | Pseudococcus orchidicola | Hemiptera | Controlled Pest |