Host plant affects the sexual attractiveness of the female white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca.

ABSTRACT: Anoplophora malasiaca (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a serious pest that destroys various landscape and crop trees in Japan. We evaluated the precopulatory responses of three different A. malasiaca populations collected from mandarin orange, willow and blueberry trees. Most of the males accepted mates from within the same host plant population as well as females from the willow and blueberry populations. However, significant number of males from the blueberry and willow populations rejected females from the mandarin orange population immediately after touching them with their antennae. Because all three of the female populations produced contact sex pheromones on their elytra, the females of the mandarin orange population were predicted to possess extra chemicals that repelled the males of

SUBMITTER: Yasui H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4944169 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature