TY  - JOUR
AV  - restricted
A1  - Ward, A
A1  - Moore, C
A1  - Anitha, V
A1  - Wightman, J
A1  - John Roge, D
TI  - Identification of the Sex Pheromone of Holotrichia reynaudi
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10705-007-9141-3
JF  - Journal of Chemical Ecology
SN  - 0098-0331
PB  - Kluwer Academic
N2  - The male attractant pheromone of the scarab beetle Holotrichia reynaudi, an agricultural pest native to southern India, was extracted from abdominal glands of females with hexane and analyzed by gas chromatography?mass spectrometry. Field testing of the candidate chemicals, indole, phenol, and anisole, both alone and as binary mixtures, led us to conclude that anisole was the major component of the sex pheromone. Neither male nor female beetles were attracted to indole or phenol on their own. Similarly, when indole and anisole were combined, the attractiveness of the solution did not increase over that obtained with anisole alone. However, combination of phenol and anisole did alter the attractiveness of anisole, with fewer male beetles attracted to the binary mixture than to anisole on its own. The behavior of female beetles was not altered by any of the chemicals tested. Anisole is also the sex pheromone of H. consanguinea, making this the first known example of two melolonthine scarabs sharing the same pheromone
KW  - Coleoptera
KW  -  Scarabaeidae
KW  -  Melolonthinae
KW  -  Holotrichia reynaudi
KW  -  anisole
KW  -  indole
KW  -  phenol
KW  -  pheromone
Y1  - 2002///
SP  - 515
ID  - icrisat6406
EP  - 522
VL  - 28
IS  - 3
ER  -