Artifacts and Pheromone Blends from Nezara spp. and Other Stink Bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

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Abstract

Isomeric com pounds reportedly released by mature males o f Nezara viridula as attractants for conspecific females are evidently artifacts formed by dimerization o f (£)-4-oxo-2-hexenal. Additional analyses o f the male-specific volatiles from Italian, Australian, Brazilian, and Japanese populations o f N. viridula verify that at least two distinctive pheromone strains exist, but an active synthetic pheromone has not yet been developed. Analyses o f volatiles from N. antennata and Acrosternum aseadum males are also reported showing that the native Japanese Nezara sp., and species in the sister genus Acrosternum, produce species-specific blends based on the same com pounds as N. viridula: (Z)-α-bisabolene (l-m ethyl-4-(l,5-dim ethyl-(Z)-l,4- hexadienyl)-cyclohexene), and trans- and cis- 1,2-epoxides of (Z)-α-bisabolene. The trans-/cis-I,2-epoxide ratio o f N. antennata is within the range found for most N. viridula populations, but the blend from Japanese N. viridula males deviates radically from those of other conspecific populations. © 1993, Walter de Gruyter. All rights reserved.

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Aldrich, J. R., Numata, H., Borges, M., Bin, F., Waite, G. K., & Lusby, W. R. (1993). Artifacts and Pheromone Blends from Nezara spp. and Other Stink Bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zeitschrift Fur Naturforschung - Section C Journal of Biosciences, 48(1–2), 73–79. https://doi.org/10.1515/znc-1993-1-214

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