ABSTRACT The small tomato fruit borer Neoleucinodes elegantalis is a pest of wild and cultivated solanaceous economic importance, such as tomatoes, eggplant, peppers scarlet eggplant. We compared the development, survival reproduction N. in Solanaceae alternative hosts absence plants field. development time was significantly affected by host plant longer larvae feeding on Survival immature stag...

Abstract We describe the immature stages and oviposition behavior of Veladyris pardalis (Salvin, 1869) from northeastern Ecuador. An unidentified species of Solanum (Solanaceae) is the larval food plant. Eggs are laid singly on leaves, stems or epiphytes growing on the host. Veladyris pardalis has four larval stadia, and takes 64-70 days to mature from oviposition to adult.

Three species of Solanum are included in a new section, Solanum sect. Allophyllum. Two of the species, S. allophyllum and S. mapiriense, have been previously known; the third, S. morellifolium Bohs, is described as new. The combination of characters exhibited by members of this section, such as unbranched hairs, 2-3-leaved sympodial units, simple leaves with decurrent bases, and tapered anthers...