We report here the identification and behavioral activity of volatile compounds emitted by male Platypus mutatus (=sulcatus) Chapuis while boring galleries in living poplar, Populus deltoides Marshall, trees. Headspace analysis using solid phase microextraction techniques showed the presence of 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-ol (sulcatol) and 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one (sulcatone). Only one enantiomer of sulcatol, retusol, was found to be part of the volatile emission. Behavioral assays showed that females are more attracted than males to galleries with boring males inside. Both sulcatol and sulcatone elicited electroantennographic responses by female P. mutatus. Furthermore, behavioral bioassays showed that both sulcatol and sulcatone elicit behaviorally attractive responses by females. These results suggest that male P. mutatus releases a sex pheromone composed mainly of retusol and sulcatone.
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1 October 2005
Identification of Volatile Emissions from Platypus mutatus (=sulcatus) (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) and Their Behavioral Activity
Paola Gonzalez Audino,
Raul Villaverde,
Rene Alfaro,
E. Zerba
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Journal of Economic Entomology
Vol. 98 • No. 5
October 2005
Vol. 98 • No. 5
October 2005
pheromone
platypus
retusol
sulcatol
sulcatone