{"id":28270,"date":"2016-09-23T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/gelechiidae\/tuta\/tuta-absoluta\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:09:02","slug":"tuta-absoluta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/parasites\/animalia\/arthropoda\/insecta\/lepidoptera\/ditrysia\/gelechioidea\/gelechiidae\/gelechiinae\/gnorimoschemini\/tuta\/tuta-absoluta\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuta absoluta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuta absoluta<\/em> (Meyrick, 1917)<\/h1>\n

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tomato leaf-miner<\/h2>\n

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on mainly Solanaceae<\/h2>\n

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Lycopersicon esculenteum<\/em>, Peru, Lima \u00a9 Chris Snyers<\/p>\n


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Source: Pherobank, Wageningen, The Netherlands<\/p>\n

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Lycopersicon esculentum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande, 1.viii.2014 \u00a9 Jan Scheffers: first open air observation<\/p>\n

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larva protruding from the mine<\/p>\n

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larva<\/p>\n

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the species also is a borer in the fruits …<\/p>\n

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… and in the stems.<\/p>\n

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Solanum tuberosum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande \u00a9 Jan Scheffers<\/p>\n

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Solanum nigrum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande \u00a9 Jan Scheffers<\/p>\n

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opened mine with larva<\/p>\n

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Solanum tuberosum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande \u00a9 Jan Scheffers<\/p>\n

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Lycopersicon esculentum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande \u00a9 Jan Scheffers: when the larva acts as a stem borer, some light swelling may occur<\/p>\n

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Solanum triflorum<\/em>, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande \u00a9 Jan Scheffers<\/p>\n

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larva<\/p>\n

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mine<\/h3>\n

Oviposition at the leaf underside. Initially a full depth gallery with an irregular course and width. Frass here in a central, only rarely interrupted, pearl chain. Later the mine develops into a very irregular, full depth blotch with only a little frass in loose grains. Probably the larva can leave its mine and restart elsewhere (getting rid of its frass in the mean time), because attacked leaves show loose silk at their surface. The larva mines it entire life; pupation is external.<\/p\n\n
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host plants<\/h3>\n

Solanaceae, to a lesser degree also Amaranthaceae, Convolvulaceae, Fabaceae<\/p>\n

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Capsicum<\/a> annuum; Chenopodium<\/a> album; Convolvulus<\/a> arvensis; Datura<\/a> ferox, stramonium; Lycium<\/a> chilense; Lycopersicon<\/a> esculentum, hirsutum; Nicotiana<\/a> glauca, tabacum; Petunia<\/a>; Phaseolus<\/a> vulgaris; Schizanthus<\/a>; Solanum<\/a> dulcamara, elaegagnifolium, lyratum, muricatum, melongena, nigrum, triflorum, tuberosum, viride.<\/p>\n


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BENELUX<\/h3>\n

BE Found by Chris Snyers in in 2011 in Belgium mining in the open air, not far from a tomato greenhouse where already in 2010 an infestation had occurred.<\/p>\n

NE NE Found in 2914 by Jan Scheffers in the open, also on a wild plant (Solanum nigrum)<\/em>. Fond vy him in 2016 in the dunes on Solanum dulcamara, nigrum<\/em>, and triflorum<\/em>.<\/p>\n

LUX not recorded.<\/p>\n


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distribution within Europe<\/h3>\n

southern Europe; originally a species from Latin America.<\/p>\n

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larva<\/a><\/h3>\n

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notes<\/h3>\n

In southern Europe, where the species has been accidentally introduced, a serious pest on potatoes and tomato. In the first case because of damage to the foliage, in the case of tomato mainly because the larvae also attack the developing fruits.<\/p>\n

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references<\/h3>\n

Baldizzone & Scalercio (2018a), Bayram, Giller, Fursov, ao (2016a), Bidzilya, Karsholt, Kravchenko & \u0160umpich (2019a), Corley, Rosete, Rom\u00e3o ao (2015a), Garc\u00eda & Bacallado (2013a), Gebiola, Bernardo, Ribes & Gibson (2015a), Gomboc, Kirichenko, Sule & Zadravec (2024a), Huemer & Karsholt (2010a), Huisman, Koster, Muus & van Nieukerken (2013a), Karsholt, Baldizzone & Gomboc (2023a), Karsholt & Huemer (2017a), Kov\u00e1cs & Kov\u00e1cs (2022a), Lepiforum<\/a> (2026), Mifsud, Cutajar, Cassar, ao (2023a), OEPP\/EPPO (2005a) Oztemiz (2014a), De Prins & Steeman (2011a), Steeman & Sierens (2019a), \u0160umpich & Skyva (2014a), Timossi, Bevacqua, Hausmann & Scalercio (2023a), To\u0161evski, Jovi\u0107, Mitrovi\u0107, Cvrkovi\u0107, Krsti\u0107 & Krnjaji\u0107 (2011a).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) tomato leaf-miner on mainly Solanaceae Lycopersicon esculenteum, Peru, Lima \u00a9 Chris Snyers Source: Pherobank, Wageningen, The Netherlands Lycopersicon esculentum, Westland, \u2018s-Gravenzande, 1.viii.2014 \u00a9 Jan Scheffers: first open air observation larva protruding from the mine larva the species also is a borer in the fruits … … and in the stems. Solanum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28269,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parasite-species.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28270","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-parasite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993798,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28270\/revisions\/993798"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bladmineerders.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}