Heliothis virescens

TaxID: 7102

Basic Information

Heliothis virescens

Tobacco Budworm, tobacco budworm

Chloridea virescens, commonly known as the tobacco budworm, is a moth of the family Noctuidae found throughout the eastern and southwestern United States along with parts of Central America and South America. It is a major pest of field crops including tobacco (as its common name suggests) and cotton. It is able to reproduce on a wide variety of host plants ranging from fruits, vegetables, flowers, and weeds. Control of this pest has proven to be particularly difficult due to a variety of factors, but widespread insecticide and pesticide resistance have proven particularly concerning. Chloridea virescens was formerly a member of the genus Heliothis, but was moved to the reinstated genus Chloridea as a result of genetic and morphological research published in 2013.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Noctuidae

Heliothis

virescens

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Nick Block@BY
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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (173 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

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Quarantine Status (9 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Angola Quarantine pests —
Guinea Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
Republic of Korea Quarantine pests —
Mexico Quarantine pests —
Mozambique Quarantine pests —
Sao Tome and Principe Quarantine pests —
Seychelles Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (11 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

11
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Antigua and Barbuda Present —
Brazil Present —
Costa Rica Present —
France Present —
Saint Lucia Present —
Mexico Present —
Montserrat Present —
Suriname Present —
Trinidad and Tobago Present —
United States of America Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_002382865.2 Scaffold - - - - -
GCA_002382865.1 Scaffold 403 19 102 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR2860625 - - - 21958907 -
ERR2860626 - - - 6222451 -
ERR2860627 - - - 35606743 -

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

Literature