Tuta absoluta ( Meyrick, 1917c )

Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5354 (1), pp. 1-503 : 36

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FC63AC45-A87B-4AEC-94BB-68DE56FBD6F6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15196166

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/553187B2-C46D-FFFA-62F6-FF6CFDAD983F

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Tuta absoluta ( Meyrick, 1917c )
status

 

Tuta absoluta ( Meyrick, 1917c) View in CoL

COMMON NAME(S): Tomato leafminer, Tomato pinworm or South American tomato moth.

SYNONYM(S): None.

IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE).

DISTRIBUTION: Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: ‘Lusaka’, in Lusaka Province.

LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include the following Solanaceae species: Solanum cyrtopodium Dunal , S. elaeagnifolium Cav., S. lycopersicum L., S. melongena L., S. nigrum L., S. tuberosum L., Capsicum annuum L., Datura stramonium L., D. ferox L. Nicotiana tabacum L. , N. glauca Graham , and also the Fabaceae species, Phaseolus vulgaris L.

SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Gelechiidae

Genus

Tuta

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