Claim · #6494958
Tuta absoluta · herbivory · Solanum lycopersicum
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta (Meyrick)”
- Authors
- Bhagyasree S.N., Anokhe Archana, Shashank P.R., Patel C.H.
- Year
- 2022
- Publication
- Insect Predators in Pest Management (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis)
- Page
- 272
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Tuta absoluta (tomato leafminer) is now a globally-spread invasive lepidopteran pest of tomato, devastating in Mediterranean and African production after its 2006-onward expansion.”
- entomologist · plausible
“T. absoluta is a textbook gelechiid leafminer/fruit-borer pest of Solanum lycopersicum; species identification and severity are well-supported.”
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