Online Identification Tools
This page contains links to websites that can be useful for screening/ identifying certain taxonomic groups of insects. These tools are given as suggestions and cannot be considered validated by this EURL. This page is updated regularly.
Diagnostic protocols
The following table lists the reference diagnostic protocols that are available for the identification of EU Quarantine Priority Insects and Mites. In addition it provides the link to the EURL Zotero web library where a selection of bibliographic resources is available for each of these pest organisms. Please note that for EU Quarantine Priority Insects and Mites for which a reference diagnostic protocol is available (EPPO/IPPC), the Extensive Systematic Literature Search (ELS) was limited to those publications which were published after the issue of the reference protocol. This list includes references which were retrieved until February 2023 and will be updated in a 6 month interval.
In order to access the EURL Zotero web library, click on the Zotero icon. Once there, you can sort all bibliographic resources by topic (morphological identification, molecular identification, occurence/outbreaks) by selecting the corresponding coloured tag (green, orange, violet) in the bottom left corner. Original description is also available, tagged in gray. For most of the bibliographic resources a DOI and a link to the editor's website for downloading are provided.
If you have not yet been invited to join the Zotero web library, please contact us and you will be welcome !
EU Priority pest |
Reference diagnostic protocol (IPPC, EPPO) |
Link to Zotero web library |
| Agrilus anxius Gory, 1841 |
No official identification protocol available |  |
| Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, 1888 |
EPPO (2023). PM 7/154(1) Agrilus planipennis. EPPO Bulletin, 53, 285–308. LINK |
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| Anastrepha ludens (Loew, 1873) |
IPPC (2016). ISPM 27 Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests DP 9: genus Anastrepha Schiner. International Plant Protection Convention. LINK | |
| Anoplophora chinensis (Forster, 1771) |
EPPO (2021) PM 7/149 (1) Anoplophora glabripennis and Anoplophora chinensis. EPPO Bulletin, 51: 568–586. LINK |
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| Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky, 1854) |
EPPO (2021) PM 7/149 (1) Anoplophora glabripennis and Anoplophora chinensis. EPPO Bulletin, 51: 568–586. LINK | |
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No official identification protocol available | |
| Aromia bungii (Faldermann, 1835) |
EPPO (2024). PM 7/156 (1) Aromia bungii. EPPO Bulletin, 54, 124–136. LINK |
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No official identification protocol available | |
| Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel, 1912) |
IPPC (2019). ISPM 27 Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests DP 29: Bactrocera dorsalis. International Plant Protection Convention. LINK |
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| Bactrocera zonata (Saunders, 1842) |
EPPO (2023). PM7/114(2) Bactrocera zonata. EPPO Bulletin, 43 (3), 412–416. LINK |
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| Conotrachelus nenuphar Harris, 1841 (provisionally accepted name) |
IPPC (2018). ISPM 27 Diagnostic protocols for regulated pests DP 28: Conotrachelus nenuphar. International Plant Protection Convention. LINK |
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EPPO (2024). PM7/157(1) Dendrolimus sibiricus. EPPO Bulletin, 54, 137–146. LINK |
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Popillia japonica |
EPPO (2006). PM7/074(1) Popillia japonica. EPPO Bulletin 36, 447–450. LINK |
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Rhagoletis pomonella |
No official identification protocol available | |
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Spodoptera frugiperda |
EPPO (2015). PM7/ 124(1) Spodoptera littoralis, Spodoptera litura, Spodoptera frugiperda, Spodoptera eridania. EPPO Bulletin 45 (3), 410–444. LINK |
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Thaumatotibia leucotreta |
EPPO (2019). PM7/137(1) Thaumatotibia leucotreta. EPPO Bulletin 49 (2), 248–258. LINK UNDER REVISION |
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