It can be found in tropical and subtropical regions such as Thailand and India, but has also been detected in countries such as the United States and Nigeria.

This virus is transmitted by an insect vector from the family Aleyrodidae and order Hemiptera, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.

Transmission is most damaging when plants are infected at early growth stages, preventing the proper formation of flowers and pollen resulting in zero to low fruit production.

[4] Treatments that are commonly used for this disease include insecticides, border crops, and growing varieties with genetic resistance.

Comparison of the sequence of PepLCV with previously characterized begomoviruses shows it likely to have resulted from recombination between Papaya leaf curl virus and ChiLCV.