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Some factors affecting responses of four stored product beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae & Bostrichidae) to pheromones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. Obeng-Ofori  and
T.H. Coaker
D. Obeng-Ofori
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
T.H. Coaker
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Abstract

Males of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), T. confusum (Duval) (Tenebrionidae), Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius) and Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Bostrichidae) secrete aggregation pheromones attractive to both sexes. Responses of the four species to synthetic aggregation pheromones were investigated in relation to age, habituation, time of day, sex and previous mating experience in an olfactometer in which odour gradients were set up in moving air. Habituation reduced pheromone response in all the species tested but all recovered to pre-habituation levels after 48 h except Tribolium spp. males. Both sexes of T. castaneum and T. confusum were responsive to pheromone immediately upon eclosion, males reaching maximum response after 19 and 21 days and females after 21 and 16 days, respectively. Pheromone response was linearly related to age of the Tribolium spp. and T. castaneum males showed a greater response than the females. Sex or having mated did not affect the responses of T. confusum, P. truncatus and R. dominica. All the pheromones evoked periodicity of response, peaking between 10.00 and 18.00 h.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , December 1990 , pp. 433 - 441
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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