Effect of colour on male orientation to female pheromone in the black chafer Holotrichia loochooana loochooana

Chemoecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 225-228

  Fukaya, Midori ^a   Arakaki, Norio ^b   Yasui, Hiroe ^a   Wakamura, Sadao ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 aminobenzoic acid; Aggregation pheromone; Anthranilic acid; Coleoptera; Holotrichia loochooana loochooana; Olfactory location; Scarabaeidae; Sex pheromone; Visual location

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 6344287829     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-004-0282-4     Document Type: Article

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