
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.
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
Lepidoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Biodiversity, Tuta absoluta, Tuta, Taxonomy, Gelechiidae
Lepidoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia, Biodiversity, Tuta absoluta, Tuta, Taxonomy, Gelechiidae
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