Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae): a New Pest of Tomato in Serbia
Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae): nova štetočina paradajza u Srbiji
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Tosevski, Ivo
Jovic, Jelena
Mitrovic, Milana
Cvrkovic, Tatjana
Krstic, Oliver
Krnjajic, Slobodan
Keywords
Leaf minerQuarantine pest
DNA barcoding
Cytochrome oxidase subunit I
Lisni miner
karantinska štetočina
DNK barkoding
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Tomato leaf miner Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), a devastating
pest of tomato originating from South America has been recorded in Serbia on three localities:
in tomato main greenhouse and open field production area located in the vicinity of town
Leskovac (South Serbia), in surroundings of the village Donji Vrtogoš (near town Vranje, South
Serbia) and in a greenhouses complex in Kraljevci (60 km west of Belgrade). The presence of
T. absoluta was confirmed by morphological and molecular study of the collected specimens. Prisustvo lisnog minera paradajza Tuta absoluta (Meyrick, 1917) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae),
opasne štetočine poreklom iz Južne Amerike, utvrđeno je na tri lokaliteta u Srbiji: u
plastenicima i poljima u okolini Leskovca (južna Srbija), u okolini sela Donji Vrtogoš (u blizini
Vranja) i u kompleksu plastenika u selu Kraljevci (60 km zapadno od Beograda). Identifikacija
T. absoluta je izvršena morfološkim i molekularnim analizama sakupljenih uzoraka.