Search for a sex pheromone in Triatoma mazzottii (Hemiptera: Reduviidae).
Hexane extracts of volatile substances from sexually mature male and female Triatoma mazzottii Usinger, collected with cold glass trap (-10 degrees C) and evaluated in a wind tunnel, demonstrated the absence of a sex pheromone. The females failed to secrete a liquid from the sixth and seventh abdominal sternite.
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Laboratorio de Ecología Química, Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas del Sureste, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
Ramirez-Rovelo
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Cruz-López
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000032:analysis*; D014224:Triatoma / Q000032:analysis*
D012724:Sex Attractants