Evidence of an aggregation pheromone in males of Metamasius spinolae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 484-487

  Tafoya, Felipe ^a   Lopez Collado, Jose ^a   Stanley, David ^a,b   Rojas, Julio C ^a,c   Cibrian Tovar, Juan ^a  

^a Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aggregation pheromone; Cactus weevil; Curculionidae; Metamasius spinolae; Opuntia ficus

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHEROMONE; BEETLE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

CACTACEAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; METAMASIUS; METAMASIUS SPINOLAE; OPUNTIA; OPUNTIA FICUS; OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 0038235080     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.3.484     Document Type: Article

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