Special issue on Tuta absoluta: recent advances in management methods against the background of an ongoing worldwide invasion.

Highlights from the article: Invasive arthropod pests hold great socio-economic and ecological importance, in the current global agricultural scenario (Paini et al. [16]). Following the I T. absoluta i arrival in European countries, various integrated pest management packages mainly based on monitoring, biological control and use of selective insecticides have been developed and implemented (Biondi et al. [5]). 1Tomato leaflet with mines caused by Tuta absoluta larvae (left), tomato fruit infested by T. absoluta larvae (center), T. absoluta adult on tomato a leaf (right). 9 Desneux N, Luna MG, Guillemaud T, Urbaneja A. The invasive South American tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta, continues to spread in Afro-Eurasia and beyond: the new threat to tomato world production.