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A SEX PHEROMONE IN THE INSECT RHODNIUS PROLIXUS (HEMIPTERA: REDUVIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. F. Baldwin ,
A. G. Knight  and
K. R. Lynn
W. F. Baldwin
Affiliation:
Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario
A. G. Knight
Affiliation:
Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario
K. R. Lynn
Affiliation:
Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, Chalk River, Ontario
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Abstract

In Rhodnius, a volatile substance produced by mating pairs is attractive to male insects. The pheromone acts also as a sexual stimulant; males respond in the absence of females by attempting copulation with other males. Air swept over mating pairs and conducted to a cage at a considerable distance proved to be highly attractive to males. Proximity of the sexes, without opportunity for actual contact, does not stimulate production of the pheromone. Since males and females will copulate only after a blood meal, feeding is a prerequisite to pheromone production. Also, unfed males will not respond to the attractant. Males of this nocturnal species were stimulated only in complete darkness.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 1 , January 1971 , pp. 18 - 22
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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