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

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The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is a devastating pest currently threatening the global tomato industry worldwide. In the last 10 years, it has spread and expanded to most of Europe, Africa and Asia, causing extensive damage to the crop itself and to the international tomato trade. With the aim of providing an overview of the current knowledge on this pest, we have briefly reviewed the available literature relying on its spread, quarantine, modeling and management. Finally, we have underlined the gaps in knowledge and provided several recommendations on how to achieve sustainable control as well as how to prevent further spread into unaffected areas.

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Acknowledgements

Funding was provided by the EU FP7-IRSES ASCII project No. 318246 (to AB, ND and MRC), the H2020-SFS EUCLID project No. 633999 (to ND), by the EU FP7 for research, technological development and demonstration, ARIMNet2 No. 618127 (to AB and ND); the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (SIR project, No. RBSI14I02A) (to AB), the CAPES Foundation to (MRC and RNCG), the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (to RNCG) and the USAID Cooperative Agreement No. AID-OAA-L-15-00001 (to AA) and IPM Innovation Lab Insect Modeling Project No. AID-OAA-14-000018 (to AA and ND). Authors are also grateful to R. Muniappan (Virginia Tech) and D. A. Muruvanda (USDA–APHIS–PPQ) for information on monitoring and quarantine efforts, and to four anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments on the manuscript.

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  1. INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, UMR 1355-7254, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, 06903, Sophia Antipolis, France

    Mateus R. Campos & Nicolas Desneux

  2. Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, 36570-900, Brazil

    Mateus R. Campos & Raul N. C. Guedes

  3. Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, via Santa Sofia 100, 95123, Catania, Italy

    Antonio Biondi

  4. Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Abhijin Adiga

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Campos, M.R., Biondi, A., Adiga, A. et al. From the Western Palaearctic region to beyond: Tuta absoluta 10 years after invading Europe. J Pest Sci 90, 787–796 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-017-0867-7

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