| Title: | Identification of the Major Sex Pheromone Component of the Click Beetle Agriotes ferrugineipennis |
| Author(s): | Singleton K; Gries R; van Herk WG; Alamsetti SK; Lemke E; Furtado K; Gries G; |
| Address: | "Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada. kendal.singleton98@gmail.com. Agassiz Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, British Columbia, V0M 1A0, Agassiz, Canada. kendal.singleton98@gmail.com. Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada. Agassiz Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, British Columbia, V0M 1A0, Agassiz, Canada" |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10886-022-01367-1 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1573-1561 (Electronic) 0098-0331 (Print) 0098-0331 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Synthetic sex pheromone lures are useful tools to monitor and control populations of adult click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae). However, sex pheromones for Agriotes click beetle species native to North America have yet to be identified. Here we report the identification and field testing of the sex pheromone of Agriotes ferrugineipennis. Headspace volatiles from female beetles were collected on Porapak Q, and aliquots of Porapak extract were analyzed by gas chromatographic-electroantennographic detection (GC-EAD) and GC-mass spectrometry. 7-Methyloctyl 7-methyloctanoate (7Me7Me) emitted by females was more abundant and elicited much stronger responses from male antennae than the aldehydes octanal and nonanal and the ketone 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanone. In a field experiment, captures of A. ferrugineipennis males in traps baited with candidate pheromone components exceeded those of unbaited control traps, on average by nearly 1,200 times. Neither the ketone nor the aldehydes as lure constituents appeared to alter captures of males in 7Me7Me-baited traps. We conclude that 7Me7Me is the major, and possibly the only, sex attractant pheromone component of female A. ferrugineipennis" |
| Keywords: | Aldehydes/pharmacology Animals *Coleoptera/physiology Female Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Ketones/pharmacology Male Pheromones/chemistry *Sex Attractants/chemistry/pharmacology 7-methyloctyl 7-methyloctanoate Agriotes ferrugineipennis Click beetle; |
| Notes: | "MedlineSingleton, Kendal Gries, Regine van Herk, Willem G Alamsetti, Santosh K Lemke, Emily Furtado, Kathleen Gries, Gerhard eng 2022/07/28 J Chem Ecol. 2022 Jun; 48(5-6):491-501. doi: 10.1007/s10886-022-01367-1. Epub 2022 Jul 27" |
