Contact sex pheromones identified for two species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Tetropium fuscum and T. cinnamopterum in the subfamily spondylidinae

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 714-726

  Silk, Peter J ^a   Sweeney, Jon ^a   Wu, Junping ^a   Sopow, Stephanie ^a,b   Mayo, Peter D ^a   Magee, David ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerambycidae; cinnamopterum; contact pheromone; fuscum; Tetropium

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANTENNA; BEETLE; CONSPECIFIC; CUTICLE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATE RECOGNITION; MATING BEHAVIOR; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; HYDROCARBONS; MALE; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; TETROPIUM; TETROPIUM CINNAMOPTERUM; TETROPIUM FUSCUM;

EID: 79958739214     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10213     Document Type: Article

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