* Landolt PJ (2008) New geographic records for tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (Fabricius) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), in the Pacific Northwest. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 84(3), 246-248.
------- as Petunia violacea.
* EPPO (2024) EPPO Technical Document No. 1091. Pest risk analysis for Chloridea virescens. EPPO, Paris. Available at https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/HELIVI/documents
------- Main host (evidence that the plant supports populations of the pest in several generations or years, i.e. true hosts, or plant mentioned as common or preferred host – see PRA for further details on the host)
* Loyola (1949) Biological observations and control of potato flea beetle, Epitrix
cucumeris Harris. Masters Theses 1911. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 113 pp.
------- Ornamental Petunia were attacked following destruction of infested Solanum nigrum in the same flower bed.
* Clark SM, LeDoux DG, Seeno TN, Riley EG, Gilbert AJ, Sullivan JM (2004) Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada. Special Publications of the Coleopterists Society, 2, 476 pp.
------- feeding of adults
* Parrella G, Gognalons P, Gebre-Selassie K, Vovlas C, Marchoux G (2003) An update of the host range of tomato spotted wilt virus. Journal of Plant Pathology 85(4), 227-264.
------- As Petunia violacea.
* Shiraishi T, Maejima K, Komatsu K et al. (2013) First report of tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid isolated from symptomless petunia plants (Petunia spp.) in Japan. Journal of General Plant Pathology 79, 214–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-013-0444-8
------- confirmed host (asymptomatic)
* Viršček Marn M, Mavrič Pleško I (2010) First report of Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid in Petunia spp. in Slovenia. Plant Disease 94(9), p 1171.
