National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)NoticesAlien and Invasive Species Lists, 2020Notice 3 : National List of Invasive Species in terms of section 70(1)(a)List 8: National List of Invasive Terrestrial Invertebrate Species |
NO |
SPECIES |
COMMON NAME |
CATEGORY/AREA |
SCOPE OF EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 71(3) / PROHIBITION IN TERMS OF SECTION 71A(1) |
1. |
Acarapis woodi (Rennie, 1921) |
Tracheal mite |
1b |
|
2. |
Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 |
Giant African snail |
3 |
|
3. |
Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, 1857) |
Crazy ant |
1b |
|
4. |
Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel, 1912) |
Oriental fruit fly |
1a |
|
5. |
Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius, 1889) |
Sweet potato whitefly |
1b |
|
6. |
Cinara cupressi (Buckton, 1881) |
Cypress aphid |
1b |
|
7. |
Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki, 1909) |
Formosan subterranean termite |
1b |
|
8. |
Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar, 1824) |
Banana root borer |
1b |
|
9. |
Dirofilaria immitis Leidy, 1856 |
Heartworm nematode |
1b |
|
10. |
Ditylenchus destructor Thorne, 1945 |
Potato rot nematode |
1b |
|
11. |
Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kühn, 1857) Filip’ev, 1936 |
Stem and bulb nematode |
1b |
|
12. |
Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber, 1923), Behrens, 1975 |
Golden cyst nematode; potato cyst nematode |
1b |
|
13. |
Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) |
Asian ladybeetle |
1b |
|
14. |
Linepithema humile (Mayr, 1868) |
Argentine ant |
1b |
|
15. |
Meloidogyne partityla Kleynhans, 1986 |
“Pecan nut” nematode |
1b |
|
16. |
Phasmatodea species (Jacobson and Blanchi, 1902) |
Stick insect |
1b |
|
17. |
Polistes dominula (Christ, 1791) |
European Paper Wasp |
1b |
|
18. |
Prostephanus truncatus (Horn, 1878) |
Larger grain borer |
1a |
|
19. |
Phenacoccus madeirensis (Green, 1925) |
Madeira mealybug |
1b |
|
20. |
Pseudococcus calceolariae (Maskell, 1879) |
Citrophilus mealybug |
1b |
|
21. |
Radopholus similis (Cobb, 1893) Thorne, 1949 |
Burrowing nematode |
1b |
|
22. |
Trogoderma granarium (Everts, 1899) |
Khapra beetle |
1b |
|
23. |
Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman, 2000 |
Varroa mite |
1b |
|
24. |
Vespula germanica (Fabricius, 1793) |
European wasp, German wasp, German yellow-jacket |
1b |