EPPO Global Database

Anguina tritici(ANGUTR)

Distribution details in United States of America

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2015: Absent, pest no longer present
Pest status declared by NPPO: Absent, no longer present (2015-04)
From CABI Disease map 848 (2002): Absent, pest no longer present
Comments
In April 2015, the NPPO officially confirmed to CABI that A. tritici was last reported in 1975 and that general surveillance carried out over more than 40 years confirms that the pest no longer occurs in the USA.
References
* NPPO of the USA (official correspondance to CABI in 2015-04).

* SON Regulatory Committee (2002) Pest list of nematodes of regulatory concern to the United States. http://nematode.unl.edu/son/pesttable1.htm.
------- Recent surveys indicate that A. tritici is no longer present in the USA.