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Title:		Behavioral Response of Leptoglossus zonatus (Heteroptera: Coreidae) to Stimuli Based on Colors and its Aggregation Pheromone
Author(s):		Franco-Archundia SL; Gonzaga-Segura AJ; Jimenez-Perez A; Castrejon-Gomez VR;
Address:		"Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bioticos (CEPROBI), Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Carretera Yautepec, Jojutla, Km. 6 calle Ceprobi No.8, San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos 62739, Mexico. sandy182_@hotmail.com. Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bioticos (CEPROBI), Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Carretera Yautepec, Jojutla, Km. 6 calle Ceprobi No.8, San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos 62739, Mexico. jgonzagas@live.com. Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bioticos (CEPROBI), Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Carretera Yautepec, Jojutla, Km. 6 calle Ceprobi No.8, San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos 62739, Mexico. aljimenez@ipn.mx. Centro de Desarrollo de Productos Bioticos (CEPROBI), Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Carretera Yautepec, Jojutla, Km. 6 calle Ceprobi No.8, San Isidro, Yautepec, Morelos 62739, Mexico. vcastrejon@ipn.mx"
Journal Title:		Insects
Year:		2018
Volume:		20180726
Issue:		3
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/insects9030091
ISSN/ISBN:		2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The leaf-footed bug Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) is an important pest in the Americas. However, no preference of colors, sexual behavior nor aggregation pheromone has been reported, which can be used for detection, monitoring, and control purposes. In the laboratory we tested the attractiveness of white, violet, blue, green, yellow, and orange color to nymphs and adults (mated and unmated) and found that most adults and nymphs were attracted to and remained longer on blue and green colored cards than the other colors tested. We found that couples may remain in copula approximately 185 min and mate approximately 20 times in a 60 d period with a similar number of matings during the scotophase and the photophase. Sexual behavior consists of six patterns: grooming, abdomen movement, antenna movement, antennation, mounting, and mating. In a Y-tube olfactometer, 80 and 62.5% of the adults tested were attracted to a hexane-extract of the volatiles released by 40 males and 40 females, respectively. This is the first report of the biological evidence of an aggregation pheromone in this bug"
Keywords:		attraction colors communication pest pheromone traps volatiles;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEFranco-Archundia, Sandra Lisbeth Gonzaga-Segura, Agustin Jesus Jimenez-Perez, Alfredo Castrejon-Gomez, Victor Rogelio eng Switzerland 2018/07/28 Insects. 2018 Jul 26; 9(3):91. doi: 10.3390/insects9030091"