First Record ofTuta absoluta(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) from Bangladesh

Host Range of the Invasive Tomato Pest Tuta absoluta Meyrick (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on Solanaceous Crops and Weeds in Tanzania

“…Tuta absoluta attained global prominence as an invasive pest in 2006 when it was introduced into Spain (Tropea Garzia et al 2012). It has since invaded other countries in Europe, the Mediterranean, northern Africa (Desneux et al 2011;Mohamed et al 2012), and South Asia (Kalleshwaraswamy et al 2015;Shashank et al 2015;Bajracharya et al 2016;Hossain et al 2016). Tuta absoluta also crossed the Sahara Desert and is now seen as a serious threat to tomato production in sub-saharan Africa (Brévault et al 2014), where preliminary reports suggest it has already reached South Africa, invading Tanzania and several other countries on the way (Chidege et al 2016;Campos et al 2017).…”

Exploring the Mechanisms of the Spatiotemporal Invasion of Tuta absoluta in Asia

“…The temperature dataset was obtained from the WorldClim database (http://www.worldclim.org/current) (Hijmans et al, 2005); relative humidity data were downloaded on the Surface meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) website (http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/sse/). However, T. absoluta occurrence data in Asia were collected from different scientific publications [16][17][18][19][20][21]. The temperature datasets were organized into monthly mean values using a grid of 30 arcseconds that correspond to about 1-km resolution.…”

“…Later, T. absoluta also invaded Africa through Morocco (2007Morocco ( /2008, Algeria (2008), Tunisia, Libya, (2009), Senegal (2011), Sudan (2011), Ethiopia (2013), Kenya (2013), and South Africa in 2017 [7][8][9][10][11][12][13], as well as Benin in 2018 [14]. Turkey was the first country in Asia to detect the presence of T. absoluta in 2009 [15], and from there it has spread and reached many countries in South and Central Asia including India (2015), the northwestern Himalayan region of India, Bangladesh (2016), Nepal (2016), Kyrgyzstan (2017), Tajikistan (2018) [16][17][18][19][20][21][22], and possibly in Myanmar (2018) in both greenhouse and open field conditions. However, despite the wide spread of T. absoluta in South Asia, the invasive pest has not yet been officially reported in many countries in Southeast or East Asia, including Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Koreas and Japan.…”

Evidence Note Tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta): Impacts and coping strategies for Africa

“…In 2014, there were reports of this pest being present in India, where it was found to be infesting tomato plants in Ahmednagar, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nashik and Satara districts of Maharashtra (Shashank et al, 2015;. Tuta absoluta is also reported to be present in Bangladesh (Hossain et al, 2016).…”