Abstract
The groundnut leaf miner (GLM), Aproaerema modicella Deventer (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), is a consequential pest of groundnut and other leguminous crops, which causes yield loss of up to 30-60% in groundnut in India.Nevertheless, some scientific studies have reported the occurrence of soybean moth, Aproaerema simplexella Walker attacking groundnut in India.The present study was conducted to assess the leaf miner species destroying groundnut in different regions of Tamil Nadu, India.Correctly identifying an insect species based on morphological and molecular techniques may pave the way for formulating accurate insect pest management strategies.Studies on the morphological characters of GLM confirmed that the species found in different districts of Tamil Nadu is A. modicella.However, BLAST search of GLM sequences indicated 100% similarity with A. simplexella.Since morphological characters of larva, pupa, adult, and male genitalia indicated the GLM species available in Tamil Nadu, as A. modicella, the sequences acquired from the present study have been submitted as the first entry in the NCBI database for species-level representation of A. modicella.
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Claims 3
Claim · model-written summary
Morphology identified the groundnut leaf miner in Tamil Nadu as A. modicella.
- Taxon
- groundnut
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Interactor
- A. modicellaAproaerema modicellae0pest
- Outcome
- species found in different districts of Tamil Nadu is A. modicellae0
- Setting
- Tamil Nadue0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Studies on the morphological characters of GLM confirmed that the species found in different districts of Tamil Nadu is A. modicella”
t0“Groundnut”
Claim · model-written summary
The groundnut leaf miner sequences had 100% similarity to A. simplexella.
- Taxon
- groundnutArachis hypogaeat0
- Interactor
- A. simplexella
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Aproaerema simplexellae0pest - Outcome
- similarity with A. simplexellae0
- Value
- 100%e0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“BLAST search of GLM sequences indicated 100% similarity with A. simplexella”
t0“Groundnut”
Claim · model-written summary
The sequences were submitted as the first NCBI species level entry for A. modicella.
- Taxon
- groundnutArachis hypogaeat0
- Interactor
- A. modicellaAproaerema modicellae0pest
- Outcome
- first entry in the NCBI database for species-level representation of A. modicellae0
- Value
- firste0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the sequences acquired from the present study have been submitted as the first entry in the NCBI database for species-level representation of A. modicella”
t0“Groundnut”