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EVIDENCE FOR A SEX ATTRACTANT IN HEMICREPIDIUS DECOLORATUS (COLEOPTERA: ELATERIDAE)1,2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. T. Hayes
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Limnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
A. G. Wheeler Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology and Limnology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Extract

Sex attractants have recently been reported for several species of Elateridae: Hypolithus bicolor Esch. (Doane 1961); Hemicrepidius morio (LeConte) (Chapman 1964) ; and Limonius californicus (Mann.), Agriotes ferrugineipennis (LeConte), Ctenicera sylvatica (Van Dyke), and C. destructor (Brown) (Lilly and McGinnis 1965). Lilly (1959) demonstrated the attractiveness to males of ethyl alcohol extracts from virgin females of the sugar-beet wireworm (L. Californicus). The attractants appear to be species-specific (Lilly and McGinnis 1965).

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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