title: Prionic Acid: An Effective Sex Attractant for an Important Pest of Sugarcane, Dorysthenes granulosus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae).
abstract: Male Dorysthenes granulosus (Thomson, 1860) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae) were caught in traps baited with racemic 3,5-dimethyldodecanoic acid (prionic acid) during field screening trials in China that tested known cerambycid pheromones. This species is an important pest of sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.). In follow-up dose-response trials, plastic sachets loaded with 1 or 0.1 mg of prionic acid were equally attractive to male beetles, whereas lower doses were no better than controls. Two commercial prionic acid lures also were attractive, suggesting that traps baited with prionic acid can be rapidly incorporated into integrated pest management programs targeting this major pest. It is likely that this compound is a major component of the female-produced sex pheromone of D. granulosus because this species is in the same subfamily as Prionus californicus Motschulsky, 1845, the species from which prionic acid was originally identified.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, First North St., Haidian District, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China (wickham@iccas.ac.cn; chenyi@iccas.ac.cn), jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu.
authors.forename: Jacob D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Wickham
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Guangxi University, 100 Daxue Rd., Nanning, Guangxi 530004, China (luwenlwen@163.com).
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Control of Tropical Agricultural and Forest Invasive Alien Pests, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China (jintao337@aliyun.com; lypzhq@163.com; 554726710@qq.com).
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Control of Tropical Agricultural and Forest Invasive Alien Pests, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China (jintao337@aliyun.com; lypzhq@163.com; 554726710@qq.com).
authors.forename: Zhengqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Monitoring and Control of Tropical Agricultural and Forest Invasive Alien Pests, Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou 571737, China (jintao337@aliyun.com; lypzhq@163.com; 554726710@qq.com).
authors.forename: Dongfeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, University of California, 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521 (jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu), and jocelyn.millar@ucr.edu.
authors.forename: Jocelyn G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Millar
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 320 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (hanks@life.illinois.edu).
authors.forename: Lawrence M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hanks
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, First North St., Haidian District, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China (wickham@iccas.ac.cn; chenyi@iccas.ac.cn).
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002633:Chemotaxis; D002681:China; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000502:physiology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010675:Pheromones / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011897:Random Allocation; D031786:Saccharum / Q000254:growth & development; D012724:Sex Attractants / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D010675:Pheromones; D012724:Sex Attractants; C010411:insect attractants
keywords: longhorned beetle; pest management; pheromone; sugarcane borer