First record of tomato leaf miner, an invasive pest in Uttarakhand, India under polyhouse condition

The South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) of order Lepidoptera and family Gelechiidae is a devastating pest of tomato that is rapidly expanding around the world. It is a quarantine pest, native to South America which was detected first time in Maharashtra, India in late 2014 and then it spread in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Gujarat. Since then, alert notice was issued by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research to keep vigil on the incidence of T. absoluta in different states. The damage was mostly found in the middle and lower leaves and half ripened and ripened fruits. This paper presents the first report of the occurrence of Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) from Uttarakhand state of India.