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 cermellii * Hypercompe icasia * Hypercompe indecisa * Large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) * Map-winged swift (Pharmacis fusconebulosa) * The nutmeg (Discestra trifolii) * Se