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Tuta absoluta
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Zambia, P. O. Box 32379, Lusaka, Zambia
- 2. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium & Australian National Insect Collection, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Description
Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917c)
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.
Notes
Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyrick
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Gelechiidae
- Genus
- Tuta
- Species
- absoluta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) sec. Mbata & Prins, 2023
References
- Meyrick, E. (1917 c) Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera. Transactions of the entomological Society of London, 1917 (1), 1 - 52. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 14689022] https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1917. tb 01401. x
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2022) Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication. Available from: https: // www. afromoths. net / (accessed 20 June 2023)