From the Western Palaearctic region to beyond: Tuta absoluta 10 years after invading Europe

Campos, Mateus Ribeiro de; Biondi, Antonio; Adiga, Abhijin; Guedes, Raul Narciso C.; Desneux, Nicolas

doi:10.1007/s10340-017-0867-7

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“…The pinworm was a pest for tomato cultivations in South America until 2006, when it arrived to Spain probably with tomato imports from central Chile (Guillemaud et al, ). Afterwards, it spread rapidly to other counties of Europe, Africa and Asia, becoming a very serious worldwide threat for greenhouse and open‐field tomato crops (Campos, Biondi, Adiga, Guedes, & Desneux, ; Tonnang, Mohamed, Khamis, & Ekesi, ). Damages on tomato plants are caused by the feeding behaviour of all pinworm larva stages at leaves, stems and crops, where they mine galleries.…”

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Susceptibility of Cypriot Tuta absoluta populations to four targeted insecticides and control failure likelihood

Michaelides

Seraphides

Pitsillou

et al. 2019

J Applied Entomology

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Tuta absoluta, known as the South American tomato pinworm, is one of the most disastrous pests of tomato cultivations, presently menacing tomato cultivations worldwide. In 2006, T. absoluta invaded Spain from South America. Since then, it was rapidly spread to most European, African and Asian countries. Such alien invasive species can minimize crop production, whereas the increasing use of insecticides raises various environmental concerns as well as on control costs, control failure and the toxicity to non‐target organisms. The S. American tomato pinworm is mostly controlled by chemical insecticides, and failure to control it is not a rare phenomenon. Resistance to numerous insecticides has been reported and is mainly due to the fact that farmers do not follow a sustainable resistance management scheme. Several examples have been reported from several countries where the tomato pinworm is present. In order to develop a successful insecticide resistance management (IRM) strategy for any major pest, one needs to identify the baseline toxicity to insecticides and then monitor susceptibility levels. In Cyprus, the current status of susceptibility levels to the main insecticides that are used to control T. absoluta has never been studied before. Herein, nine Cypriot populations of the pest were subjected to laboratory bioassays between 2016 and 2018 using the main insecticides applied against it. We found that the insecticides chlorantraniliprole and indoxacarb could not control the Cypriot T. absoluta populations anymore, with a resistance ratio (RR) >28 and 3–23, respectively. Furthermore, mortality achieved by those two insecticides was 20.6%–72% for chlorantraniliprole and 27.5%–78% for indoxacarb. However, the insecticides emamectin benzoate and spinosad are very effective, since mortality to both of them ranged between 99.5% and 100%.

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Susceptibility of Cypriot Tuta absoluta populations to four targeted insecticides and control failure likelihood

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Pitsillou

et al. 2019

J Applied Entomology

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“…Thus, the past and localized concern emerged as a worldwide threat to tomato cultivation in which only two of the main producers, China and the USA, remain free from the tomato pinworm. This species is already present in China’s neighbouring countries, and it is edging towards Mexico in North America (Campos et al., ; Biondi et al., ). The tomato pinworm is difficult to control particularly in open‐field cultivation requiring intensive use of insecticides and exhibiting increasing problems of insecticide resistance (Biondi et al., ; Desneux et al., ; Gontijo et al, ; Guedes, ; Guedes & Picanço, ; Guedes & Siqueira, ).…”

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Wolbachiastrains, and lack of genetic diversity and parthenogenesis in Brazilian populations ofTuta absoluta(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

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Corrêa

Oliveria

et al. 2018

J Applied Entomology

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The pheromone‐based control of the invasive tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) has been unsatisfactory in some cases, and parthenogenesis was reported in this species. As the parthenogenesis phenomena is a shortcoming that compromises the pheromone‐based control of T. absoluta and that is potentially explained by the occurrence of the endosymbiont Wolbachia in this pest species, the objectives of this study were (i) to survey the Wolbachia strains in Brazilian pinworm populations, (ii) to assess the genetic diversity in the tomato pinworm, and (iii) to determine whether parthenogenesis does occur associated with the most representative combination of insect haplotype and Wolbachia strain. The 10 insect populations were infected with two Wolbachia strains (ST41 and ST354), with infection rates ranging from 70% to 100%. The insect genetic diversity was low with a single haplotype group present for both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers. The most representative combination of pinworm‐Wolbachia produced 6.88 ± 1.70 eggs per unmated female, all of which were inviable. Thus, Wolbachia infection does not lead to either parthenogenesis or pheromone‐based control failure among Brazilian populations of the tomato pinworm, but likely favours cytoplasmic incompatibility, which is also potentially useful as a pest management tool.

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“…The tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is one of the main pests of tomato crops worldwide . Tuta absoluta has been reported in various European countries, the Middle East, and northern, sub‐Saharan, and West Africa . Recently, the tomato leaf miner has also been reported in East Africa and South Africa.…”

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Assessing the spatial distribution of Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) eggs in open‐field tomato cultivation through geostatistical analysis

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Picanço

Silva

et al. 2017

Pest Management Science

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Our results indicate that the greatest egg densities of T. absoluta occur at the edges of tomato crops. These results are discussed in relation to the behavior of T. absoluta distribution within fields and in terms of their implications for improved sampling guidelines and precision targeting control methods that are essential for effective pest monitoring and management. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.

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From the Western Palaearctic region to beyond: Tuta absoluta 10 years after invading Europe

Cited by 208 publications

References 85 publications

Susceptibility of Cypriot Tuta absoluta populations to four targeted insecticides and control failure likelihood

Susceptibility of Cypriot Tuta absoluta populations to four targeted insecticides and control failure likelihood

Wolbachiastrains, and lack of genetic diversity and parthenogenesis in Brazilian populations ofTuta absoluta(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae)

Assessing the spatial distribution of Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) eggs in open‐field tomato cultivation through geostatistical analysis

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