EPPO Global Database

Petunia sp.(PEUSS)

Pests

Organism Type
Cheravirus arracaciae oca strain (as Solanaceae) (AVBO00) Experimental
Ipomovirus lycopersici (TOMMOV) Experimental
* Dombrowsky A, Sapkota R, Lachman O, Pearlsman M, Antignus Y (2013) A new aubergine disease caused by a whitefly-borne strain of Tomato mild mottle virus (TomMMoV). Plant Pathology 62(4), 750-759.
Nepovirus rubi (as Petunia) (RPRSV0) Experimental
Tobacco streak ilarvirus potato strain (as Solanaceae) (TSVP00) Experimental
Aculops lycopersici (as Solanaceae) (VASALY) Host
Bemisia tabaci (as Solanaceae) (BEMITA) Host
Chloridea virescens (HELIVI) Host
* 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

* Cranshaw WS (2020) Tobacco (Geranium) Budworm. Fact Sheet 5.581. Colorado State University Extension. Available at: extension.colostate.edu

* Davidson NA, Kinsey MG, Ehler LE, Frankie GW (1992) Tobacco budworm, pest of petunias, can be managed with Bt. California Agriculture 46 (July-August), 79.

* Hambleton EJ (1944) Heliothis virescens as a pest of cotton, with notes on host plants in Peru. Journal of Economic Entomology 37, 660-666.

* Kogan M, Helm CG, Kogan J, Brewer E (1989) Distribution and economic importance of Heliothis virescens and Heliothis zea in North, Central, and South America and of their Natural Enemies and Host Plants. pp 241-297 In Proceedings of the Workshop on Biological Control of Heliothis: Increasing the effectiveness of natural enemies. USDA.

* 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)
Epilachna vigintioctomaculata (as Solanaceae) (EPILVI) Host
Epitrix cucumeris (as Petunia) (EPIXCU) 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.
Epitrix hirtipennis (EPIXPA) Host
* 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 and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication of the Coleopterists Society, 2, 615 pp.
Epitrix tuberis (as Petunia) (EPIXTU) Host
* 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
Heteronychus arator (as Petunia) (HETRAR) Host
Liriomyza huidobrensis (LIRIHU) Host
* Hincapie CMC, Saavedra HME, Trochez PAL (1993) Life cycle, behavior and natural enemies of Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) on bulb onion (Allium cepa L.). Revista Colombiana de Entomologia 19, 51-57.

* Shindo JI (2006) Occurrence of pea leafminer, Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) in 2005 in Amori Prefecture and effective granular insecticides for control. Annual Report of the Society of Plant Protection of North Japan 57, 188-191.

* Valladares G (1984) Sobre el género Liriomyza Mik 1894 (Diptera, Agromyzidae) en la República Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomologica Argentina 43, 13-36.

* Valladares G, Salvo A, Videla M (1999) Moscas minadoras en cultivos de Argentina. Horticultura Argentina 18(44- 45), 56-61.

* Weintraub PG, Scheffer SJ, Visser D, Valladares G, Soares Correa A, Shepard BM, Rauf A, Murphy ST, Mujica N, MacVean C, Kroschel J (2017) The invasive Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae): understanding its pest status and management globally. Journal of Insect Science 17(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/iew188
Meloidogyne graminicola (MELGGC) Host
* Rusinque L, Maleita C, Abrantes I, Palomares-Rius JE, Inácio ML (2021) Meloidogyne graminicola - A threat to rice production: review update on distribution, biology, identification, and management. Biology 10, 1163. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology10111163
Phytophthora lateralis (PHYTLA) Host
* Forest Research (online) Phytophthora lateralis.  https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/pest-and-disease-resources/phytophthora-lateralis/ (last accessed 2021-10)
Pospiviroid chloronani (as Petunia) (TCDVD0) Host
* 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.
Pospiviroid exocortiscitri (CEVD00) Host
* van Brunschot SL, Persley DM, Roberts A, Thomas JE (2014) First report of pospiviroids infecting ornamental plants in Australia: Potato spindle tuber viroid in Solanum laxum (synonym S. jasminoides) and Citrus exocortis viroid in Petunia spp. New Disease Reports 29, 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2014.029.003
Pospiviroid fusituberis (PSTVD0) Host
* Mertelik J, Kloudova K, Cervena G, Necekalova J, Mikulkova H, Levkanicova Z, Dedic P, Ptacek J (2010) First report of Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) in Brugmansia spp., Solanum jasminoides, Solanum muricatum and Petunia spp. in the Czech Republic. Plant Pathology 59, 392.
------- Absence of symptoms.
Verticillium nonalfalfae (VERTNO) Host
* Inderbitzin P, Subbarao KV (2014) Verticillium systematics and evolution: how confusion impedes Verticillium wilt management and how to resolve it. Phytopathology 104(6), 564-574. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-11-13-0315-IA 
Orthotospovirus impatiensnecromaculae (INSV00) Major host
* Kazinczi G, Horvath J, Takacs A (2007) Tospoviruses on Ornamentals. Plant viruses 1(29), 142-162.
Alphanucleorhabdovirus tuberosum (as Solanaceae) (PYDV00) Wild/Weed
Stagonosporopsis andigena (as Solanaceae) (PHOMAN) Wild/Weed