* Blanco CA, Rosario-Lebron A, O’Donnell CA, Portilla M, Gullbronson C, Mowery J, Smith-Pardo AH, Stocks I, Nadel H, Trozzo LR, Haslem PS, Young JD, Downes S, Parker T, Walsh T, Tay WT, Oppenheim S (2019) Improving Risk Assessment of Noctuid Pests at North American Ports and Farms by Differentiating Egg Morphology. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 112(5), 443-450.
* Capinera JL (2001) Heliothis virescens (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) EENY-219 (latest revision Dec. 2018). Featured Creatures. University of Florida. https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/tobacco_budworm.htm
------- common pest of verbena.
* Cranshaw WS (2020) Tobacco (Geranium) Budworm. Fact Sheet 5.581. Colorado State University Extension. Available at: extension.colostate.edu
------- occasional damage.
* Hambleton EJ (1944) Heliothis virescens as a pest of cotton, with notes on host plants in Peru. Journal of Economic Entomology 37, 660-666.
* 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)
* Food Plant Database for the Leafrollers of the World (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). http://www.tortricidae.com/foodplantreferences.asp
------- LACM Index. Records from the card file at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, California; transcribed by Gaeden Robinson (BMNH).
* 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 (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication 2, 615 pp.
------- Adult host.
* Bostan H, Nie X and Singh RP(2004) An RT-PCR primer pair for the detection of pospiviroids and its application in surveying ornamental plants for viroids. Journal of Virological Methods, 116, 189–193
