Putative sex pheromone of the Asian citrus psyllid, Diaphorina citri, breaks down into an attractant.

ABSTRACT: Under laboratory conditions, mating activity in Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) started 4 days after emergence, peaked at day 7, and showed a clear window of activity starting 8 h into the photophase and extending through the first hour of the scotophase. We confirmed that ACP males are attracted to emanations from conspecific females. Traps loaded with a candidate compound enriched with female extract, lignoceryl acetate (24Ac), at various doses were active only after being deployed for several weeks in the field, suggesting that a degradation product, not the test compound, was the active ingredient(s). Lignocerol, a possible product of 24Ac degradation, was not active, whereas acetic acid, another possible degradation product, was found in the airborne volatile collections from lures matured

SUBMITTER: Zanardi OZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5764970 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature