Target spot, caused by Corynespora cassiicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) C.T. Wei, has a wide range of hosts including more than 350 mono and dicotyledonous species of plants distributed over several countries with tropical and subtropical climates (Dixon et al., 2009). In recent decades, this disease has become one of the major problems affecting plants from the Cucurbitaceae and Solanaceae families in Brazil (Lopes et al., 2005). Epidemics are frequently reported by cucumber growers, both in greenhouse conditions and in the open field (Bezerra & Bentes, 2015;Martins, 2003;Teramoto et al., 2011).Yield losses of up to 60% have been reported in Japanese cucumber cultivated in greenhouses (Verzignassi et al., 2003). Even for cultivars (cvs.) considered to have some level of resistance, such as Taiko