Mate searching in the scale insect, Dactylopius coccus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Dactylopiidae)

Title:

Mate searching in the scale insect, Dactylopius coccus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Dactylopiidae)

Creator:

Rodríguez, Luis C., Faúndez , Eric H., and Niemeyer, Herman M.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ca3eb472-3f3c-4a4a-b473-001745b5d184
uuid:ca3eb472-3f3c-4a4a-b473-001745b5d184

Subject:

Dactylopius coccus, sex pheromone, chemical communication, and Opuntia ficus indica

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Dactylopius coccus is a sessile scale insect living on cladodes of Opuntia ficus indica which has commercial importance as a source of carminic acid. We herein present behavioural evidence of the existence of a sex pheromone in D. coccus, based on olfactometric experiments using both biological sources of odours and collected chemical extracts.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2005 Volume:102 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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