EFSA Panel, P.L.H., Civera, A.V., Baptista, P., Berlin, A., Chatzivassiliou, E., Cubero, J., Cunniffe, N., de la Peña, E., Desneux, N., Di Serio, F., Filipiak, A., Gonthier, P., Hasiów-Jaroszewska, B., Jactel, H., Landa, B.B., Maistrello, L., Makowski, D., Milonas, P., Papadopoulos, N.T., Potting, R., Susi, H., van der Gaag, D.J., Gobbi, A., Kertesz, V., Maiorano, A., Papachristos, D., & Sfyra, O. 2024h Pest categorisation of Lepidosaphes pistaciae. EFSA Journal https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2025.9152

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diagnosis

dispersal

distribution

economic importance

host

taxonomy

Notes: L. pistaciae is reported as a polyphagous pest which mainly affects plants of the genus Pistacia. While the fulfilment of the criterion on having an economic or environmental impact in the EU is associated with a key uncertainty, all the other criteria assessed by EFSA for consideration as a potential quarantine pest are met.

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