Male Pair-Formation Pheromones in Panorpa Scorpionflies (Mecoptera: Panorpidae)
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Environmental Entomology
- Vol. 8 (5) , 886-888
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/8.5.886
Abstract
Female Panorpa responded olfactorily to conspecific males which have everted their genital pouches (i.e., “callings”). Females showed no olfactory response to males whose genital pouch was covered or to non-calling sexually inactive males. Males did not respond olfactorily to “calling” males, to receptive females, or to copulating pairs. Females responded olfactorily to copulating pairs. The pheromone (s) was attractive at distances up to 8 m.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: