077ff9be-fb35-4d2a-ac82-c4af2f6588f7 Sweden 2026-06-09 Swedish risk ranking of plant pests: additional species assessed – Report no. 2, 2026 SLU Risk Assessment of Plant Pests was requested by the Swedish Board of Agriculture (NPPO) to conduct a risk ranking of a target group of plant pests relevant to Sweden from a phytosanitary perspective. The risk ranking model FinnPRIO (Heikkilä et al. 2016) is used for the assessments and subsequent rankings. A description of the project aim, scope and methodology is presented in another report, i.e. Boberg and Björklund (2026).


This report presents the results of FinnPRIO assessments for a new batch of 14 species that were subsequently ranked together with 119 previously assessed species.


The following 14 species have now been added: 


• Anthonomus bisignifer [ANTHBI]
• Anthonomus signatus [ANTHSI]
• Begomovirus birdi [BGYMV0]
• Begomovirus costai [BGMV00]
• Begomovirus cucurbitapeponis [SLCV00]
• Begomovirus solanumvariati [TOMOV0]
• Curtovirus betae [BCTV00]
• Exomala orientalis [ANMLOR]
• Phyrdenus muriceus [PHRDMU]
• Ralstonia syzygii subsp. indonesiensis [RALSSI]
• Rhigopsidius tucumanus [RHGPTU]
• Xiphinema americanum (sensu stricto) [XIPHAA]
• Xiphinema bricolense [XIPHBC]
• Xiphinema rivesi (non-EU populations) [XIPHRI]


Risk scores for each pest are presented in the risk ranking. 

]]> EPPO Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Anthonomus bisignifer Anthonomus signatus Begomovirus birdi Begomovirus costai Begomovirus cucurbitapeponis Begomovirus solanumvariati Curtovirus betae Exomala orientalis Phyrdenus muriceus Ralstonia syzygii subsp. indonesiensis Rhigopsidius tucumanus Xiphinema americanum sensu stricto Xiphinema bricolense Xiphinema rivesi Sweden Risk_ranking_Report_2-2026_9june2026.pdf https://pra.eppo.int/getfile/0d4ac0a4-78e7-4d8a-b3a8-b14e0409dfc9