EPPO data sheets on pests recommended for regulation. Fiches informatives sur les organismes recommand´es pour r´eglementation. Keiferia lycopersicella. General information about Keiferia lycopersicella (GNORLY). Background. The tomato pinworm, Keiferia lycopersicella (Walsingham) ( Lepidoptera,. Gelechiidae) is a pest of tomatoes in North America. It has caused foliage.

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The tomato pinworm is a small, microlepidopteran moth that is often confused with closely related species, which have similar habits. All larvae appear smooth skinned without any prominent hairs. The feeding creates narrow blackened tunnels and exposes fruit lyxopersicella decay. Several sanitary measures should be followed because infestations often result from shipment of pinworms in picking containers, crates, infested fruit or seedlings, lycopersocella from populations perpetuated on plants left in fields after harvest or left in seed flats or compost heaps Poe A generation can be completed in 30 days under summer conditions.
Eggs are laid singly or grouped in twos and threes on the host-plant foliage. It was later synonymized with Eucatoptus lycopersicella Walshingham. Continuing to use www.
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Contributed by Michael W. Use of locally produced and ‘clean’ transplants is recommended to avoid transplanting pest problems with the crop. Keiferia lycopersicella Walsingham Lyclpersicella of the larvae of Keiferia penicula Heim. For each 10 mines in the first leaf, in the first two leaves and in the first three leaves there was a reduction in yield of The larva causes mines on the leaves, visible mainly on the upper surface.
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Management Back lycopfrsicella Top Several sanitary measures should be followed because infestations often result from shipment of pinworms in picking containers, crates, infested fruit or seedlings, and from populations perpetuated on plants left in fields after harvest or left in seed flats lycoperwicella compost heaps Poe Photograph by Van Waddill, University of Florida.
Approximately 60 to 80 percent of tomato fruits may become infested in a single season Elmore and Howland Schuster, University of Florida.

Economic Importance Back to Top Damage to tomatoes results from the feeding of larvae on leaves, stems and fruit. They concluded that damage by all species was less severe on staked plants.
We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. Larvae generally bore into fruit under the calyx, and the entry holes are difficult to detect.

Adult of the tomato pinworm, Keiferia lycopersicella Walshingham. Larvae usually begin feeding in leaf mines before moving to fruit, but may enter fruit soon after hatching. Continued feeding results in a blotch-like mine which can usually be found on that same leaf. This species is a well-known pest of tomato, but it is known to feed on various other solanaceous plants, including eggplant. Females have the ostium with oblong sclerotization, a long funnel-shaped antrumand a large sickle-shaped signum with protruding base.
Discussion View source History. Pupation occurs in a web on the ground surface. The precautions include use of transplants that are free of eggs and larvae when set in the field, and the destruction of all plant debris in fields after harvest.
Life history and control of the tomato pinworm. Views Read Edit View history. Cultural Control Plant tissue, infested fruits and packing materials where larvae may pupate should be destroyed.
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The effects of planting time and postharvest practices lycopersicela K. Tomato foliage showing field damage by tomato pinworm, Keiferia lycopersicella Walshingham. Life History Back to Top The developmental time for each stage from egg to adult is shown in the table below Elmore and Howland
