List of Lepidoptera that feed on Solanum

Solanum species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including:

• Angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa)
• Bedellia species:

• B. annuligera - recorded on S. melongena
• B. orchilella - recorded on S. melongena
• B. somnulentella - recorded on S. melongena

• Bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea)
• Cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae)
• Common swift (Korscheltellus lupulina)
• Double-striped pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)
• Endoclita malabaricus
• Garden dart (Euxoa nigricans)
• Ghost moth (Hepialus humuli)
• Heart and dart (Agrotis exclamationis)
• Hypercompe cermelii
• Hypercompe icasia
• Hypercompe indecisa
• Large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba)
• Map-winged swift (Pharmacis fusconebulosa)
• The nutmeg (Discestra trifolii)
• Setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum)
• Small angle shades (Euplexia lucipara)
• Tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta)
• Tomato hornworm (Manduca quinquemaculata)
• Trichophassus giganteus
• Turnip moth (Agrotis segetum)

External links[]

• Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W. & Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Hostplant Genus: Solanum". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.