title: Octenol as attractant to Nyssomyia neivai (Diptera:Psychodidae:Phlebotominae) in the field.
abstract: The kairomone octenol is known as attractive to hematophagous Diptera such as mosquitoes, tsetse flies, and midges. There is little evidence that traps baited with octenol are also effective in attracting phlebotomine sand flies. The present report evaluated octenol in modified Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) traps in two experiments: 1) modified CDC trap without light and 2) modified CDC trap with light. The traps were baited with octenol at concentrations of 0.5, 27, and 43 mg/h in Rincão locality, São Paulo, Brazil. Traps without octenol were used as controls. The sand fly Nyssomyia neivai (Pinto) (= Lutzomyia neivai) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) was the prevalent species (99.9%) in both experiments. The results of the experiments showed that traps baited with octenol at 27 and 43 mg/h caught significantly more N. neivai than control and octenol at 0.5 mg/h with and without light. This is the first report that shows that octenol itself is attractive to N. neivai and associated with light traps significantly increases the catches.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Parasitologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade Estadual Julio de Mesquita Filho, 14801-902 Araraquara-SP, Brazil. marap@fcfar.unesp.br
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barbieri
authors.forename: M C E
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: M A S
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Graminha
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Casanova
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Eiras
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000187:drug effects*; D005260:Female; D007300:Insect Control; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D000442:Octanols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011576:Psychodidae / Q000187:drug effects*
chemical_list: D000442:Octanols; C038844:1-octen-3-ol