Hydroxybenzoic acid derivatives in a nonhost rutaceous plant, Orixajaponica, deter both oviposition and larval feeding in a rutaceae-feeding swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus L.
A Rutaceae-feeding swallowtail butterfly. Papilio xuthus L., feeds on various rutaceous plants but always rejects Orixa japonica Thunb. (Rutaceae). Females were strongly deterred from laying eggs by a methanolic extract of O. japonica leaves. Larvae also rejected a diet leaf medium impregnated with O. japonica leaf extracts. Several components in the water-soluble fraction of the leaf extract were found to deter both oviposition and feeding responses. Two major deterrent compounds were characterized as 5-[[2-O-(beta-D-apiofuranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl]oxy]-2-hydroxybenzoic acid and adisyringoyl aldaric acid. These compounds induced potent deterrence of both oviposition and larval feeding by P. xuthus, which suggests a congruent chemosensory mechanism of allomonal chemicals acting on both female tarsal chemoreceptors and larval maxillary taste receptors.
Ono
Hajime
H
Laboratory of Chemical Ecology, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Kuwahara
Yasumasa
Y
Nishida
Ritsuo
R
D000818:Animals; D002080:Butterflies / Q000502:physiology*; D002628:Chemoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D062385:Hydroxybenzoates / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007814:Larva / Q000502:physiology; D010058:Oviposition; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000494:pharmacology; D027821:Rutaceae / Q000737:chemistry*; D012995:Solubility; D013649:Taste
C488467:5-((2-O-(beta-D-apiofuranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy)-2-hydroxybenzoic acid; D062385:Hydroxybenzoates; D010936:Plant Extracts