Behavioural evidence for a female sex pheromone in Cotesia flavipes (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-187

  De Freitas, Maria Do Rosário T ^a   Mendonça, Adriana De Lima ^a   Do Nascimento, Ruth Rufino ^a,b   Sant'ana, Antônio Euzébio G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b Campus A C Simões   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cotesia flavipes; Dufour gland; Mating behaviour; Sex attractant

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTANT; CHEMICAL CUE; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEX PHEROMONE;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA; COTESIA FLAVIPES; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 2542519314     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.0385.x     Document Type: Article

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