Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 81
  • Issue: 4

A note on Atherigona orientalis Schiner infesting tomato in India

1PC Unit AICRP on Small Millets, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bangalore, 560065

2Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012

Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012

*Email: anooj227@gmail.com (corresponding author)

Abstract

Atherigona orientalis Schiner which had been earlier reported on rotten tomato as saprophagous, is reported as new record with field infestation on fresh tomato from India. Its identity with salient morphological details, confirmed with mtCOI-5P is explained herein.

Keywords

Atherigona (Acritochaeta) orientalis, tomato, field surveys, diagnostics, mtCo1, oviposition