Sex Attractants for Male Lepidoptera
- 1 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Agricultural and Biological Chemistry
- Vol. 41 (8) , 1485-1492
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00021369.1977.10862690
Abstract
About one hundred of unsaturated long straight chain compounds (C10-C18) containing a terminal hydroxyl or acetoxyl group were synthesized and their attractiveness to male Lepidoptera were tested in various environments. In this screening test, male insects of ninety- three species which belong to fifteen families were attracted specifically. It was indicated that monoene alcohols and acetates constitute a main group of sex pheromones of the Lepidoptera being native in Japan. Discussions are made on the structure-activity relationship in the attractants and on the chemical structural features of components, which are expected to be present commonly in the certain family, namely, Torticidae, Noctuidae etc.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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