“…It has the potential to cause 80%-100% yield losses in tomato (Balzan & Moonen, 2012;Cocco, Serra, Lentini, Deliperi, & Delrio, 2015;França, 1993;Souza & Reis, 1992;Torres, Evangelista, Barras, & Guedes, 2002). Recently, the pest has been reported from India (Sankarganesh, Firake, Sharma, Verma, & Behere, 2017;Sridhar, Chakravarthy, Asokan, & Vinesh, 2014), Nepal (Bajracharya et al, 2016), South Africa (Visser, Vivienne, Roedolf, & Welma, 2017) and it has now spread to Canary Island, Algeria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Senegal, Niger, Kenya, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda in the African continent (Biondi et al, 2018;Campos, Biondi, Adiga, Guedes, & Desneux, 2017;Tonnang, Mohamed, Khamis, & Ekesi, 2015).…”