| Title: | "[Ethyl 4-methyloctanoate, major component of male pherome in Oryctes rhinoceros (L.) (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)]" |
| Author(s): | Morin JP; Rochat D; Malosse C; Lettere M; de Chenon RD; Wibwo H; Descoins C; |
| Address: | "CIRAD-CP, s/c INRA, Unite de phytopharmacie et des mediateurs chimiques, Versailles, France" |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0764-4469 (Print) 0764-4469 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Ethyl 4-methyloctanoate, which has already been described in Oryctes monoceros, has been identified, using extracts of effluvia collected from males, as being a major component of the male pheromone of O. rhinoceros. Field trials have been carried out in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Ethyl 4-methyloctanoate synthesized in the laboratory and released at 10 mg/d resulted in the capture of 6.8 insects per week per trap, whereas ethyl chrysanthemate (40 mg/d), an allelochemical compound once used as an attractant, only led to the capture of 0.3 insects, and the control none at all. The insects captured with the pheromone were 81% females, the majority being sexually mature. Discovery of this compound opens up new prospects for O. rhinoceros control" |
| Keywords: | Animals *Baculoviridae Caprylates/*pharmacology Coleoptera/*chemistry/*virology Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Insect Control Insect Viruses Male Pheromones/*chemistry Sex Attractants/*chemistry/*pharmacology; |
| Notes: | "MedlineMorin, J P Rochat, D Malosse, C Lettere, M de Chenon, R D Wibwo, H Descoins, C fre France 1996/07/01 C R Acad Sci III. 1996 Jul; 319(7):595-602" |
