EPPO Global Database

Verbena sp.(VEBSS)

Pests

Organism Type
Chloridea virescens (HELIVI) Host
* 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)
Choristoneura rosaceana (CHONRO) 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).
Diabrotica virgifera zeae (as Verbena) (DIABVZ) 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, Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication 2, 615 pp.
------- Adult host.
Pospiviroid chloronani (as Verbena) (TCDVD0) Host
* Singh RP, Dilworth AD, Baranwal VK, Gupta KN (2006) Detection of Citrus exocortis viroid, Iresine viroid, and Tomato chlorotic dwarf viroid in new ornamental host plants in India. Plant Disease 90(11), 1457-1457.
------- Verbena hybrid.
Pospiviroid impedichrysanthemi (CSVD00) 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
Orthotospovirus impatiensnecromaculae (INSV00) Major host
* Kazinczi G, Horvath J, Takacs A (2007) Tospoviruses on Ornamentals. Plant viruses 1(29), 142-162.
Margarodes vitis (as Verbenaceae) (MARGVI) Wild/Weed
* Giliomee J, de Klerk C & Watson GW (2022) 3.3.4 Margarodes spp. In: Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests (Eds Kondo T & Watson GW), pp. 69-73. CAB International, Wallingford (UK).