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Environ Entomol

Title:		Evidence of Aggregation-Sex Pheromone Use by Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Species Native to Africa
Author(s):		Bobadoye B; Torto B; Fombong A; Zou Y; Adlbauer K; Hanks LM; Millar JG;
Address:		"Behavioural and Chemical Ecology Department, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya. Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. Kasernstrasse, Graz, Austria. Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA"
Journal Title:		Environ Entomol
Year:		2019
Volume:		48
Issue:		1
Page Number:		189 - 192
DOI:		10.1093/ee/nvy164
ISSN/ISBN:		1938-2936 (Electronic) 0046-225X (Linking)
Abstract:		"During field bioassays in Kenya of 10 chemicals that are common pheromone components of cerambycid beetles, six species in the subfamily Cerambycinae were significantly attracted to 3-hydroxyhexan-2-one, and one species in the subfamily Lamiinae was significantly attracted to 2-(undecyloxy)ethanol (known as monochamol). These results further demonstrate that the former compound is highly conserved as a cerambycid pheromone because it has now been identified or implicated in the pheromones of numerous cerambycine species native to all six habitable continents. Similarly, monochamol has been identified or implicated as a pheromone component for species in the subfamily Lamiinae native to Asia, Europe, North America, and now Africa. The eight other compounds tested, including (E)-6,10-dimethyl-5,9-undecadien-2-ol (fuscumol), the corresponding (E)-6,10-dimethyl-5,9-undecadien-2-yl acetate (fuscumol acetate), syn- and anti-(2,3)-hexanediols and (2,3)-octanediols, 3-hydroxyoctan-2-one, and 3-hydroxydecan-2-one, did not attract significant numbers of any species"
Keywords:		Animals *Coleoptera Kenya *Sex Attractants;
Notes:		"MedlineBobadoye, Bridget Torto, Baldwyn Fombong, Ayuka Zou, Yunfan Adlbauer, Karl Hanks, Lawrence M Millar, Jocelyn G eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. England 2018/12/06 Environ Entomol. 2019 Feb 13; 48(1):189-192. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvy164"