EPPO Global Database

Leucinodes orbonalis(LEUIOR)

Distribution details in India

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2017: Present, widespread
From CABI Pest map 364 (1976): Present, widespread
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2019/049) : in Karnataka, it has recently become a destructive pest of potato (Solanum tuberosum), causing heavy losses. Before, it was mainly attacking eggplant (S. melongena).
References
* Kodandaram MH, Rai AB, Sharma SK, Singh B (2017) Shift in the level of susceptibility and relative resistance of brinjal shoot and fruit borer Leucinodes orbonalis (Guen) to diamide insecticides. Phytoparasitica 45, 151-154.
------- Resistance to diamide insecticides (Uttar Pradesh).

* Kumar R, Mittal V, Kumar N, Ramamurthy VV (2013) Taxonomic aid to major crambid vegetable pests from North India (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology Journal 8(2), 858-875.

* Mally R, Korycinska A, Agassiz DJL, Hall J, Hodgetts J, Nuss M (2015) Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea). ZooKeys 472, 117-162.

* Natikar PK & Balikai RA (2018) Status of insect pests of potato and their natural enemies 21(2), 1163–1172.
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Bangladesh Present, widespread view...
China Xianggang (Hong Kong) Present, no details view...
China Present, restricted distribution view...
China Hubei Present, no details view...
China Hunan Present, no details view...
China Jiangxi Present, no details view...
Myanmar Present, no details view...
Nepal Present, no details view...
Pakistan Present, no details view...