tomato leaf curl china virus tomato leaf curl china virus tomato leaf curl china virus is a virus that infects tomato plants in china and was first described in 2011. the virus infects tomatoes in the chinese province of guangxi, and it is transmitted by the whitefly. the current eppo name is tolccv, but its original name in the literature was tolccnv. tomato leaf curl china virus virus classification (unranked): virus realm: monodnaviria kingdom: shotokuvirae phylum: cressdnaviricota class: repensiviricetes order: geplafuvirales family: geminiviridae genus: begomovirus species: tomato leaf curl china virus it belongs to the genus begomovirus, which also contains the tomato yellow leaf curl china virus.