Identification of polyenic hydrocarbons from the northern winter moth, Operophtera fagata, and development of a species specific lure for pheromone traps

Chemoecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-58

  Szocs, Gábor ^a   Toth, Miklós ^a   Kárpáti, Zsolt ^a   Zhu, Junwei ^b   Löfstedt, Christer ^b   Plass, Ernst ^c   Francke, Wittko ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geometridae; Monitoring; Operophtera brumata; Operophtera fagata; Polyenic hydrocarbon; Reproductive isolation; Sex pheromone; Sympatric species

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; OPEROPHTERA FAGATA;

EID: 0842287519     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-003-0258-9     Document Type: Article

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