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Sex pheromones and attractants in the Eucosmini and Grapholitini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae)

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The geometric isomers (E,E)-, (E,Z)-, (Z,E)-, and (Z,Z)-8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetate were identified as sex pheromone components or sex attractants in the tribes Eucosmini and Grapholitini of the tortricid subfamily Olethreutinae. Species belonging to the more ancestral Tortricinae were not attracted. Each one isomer was behaviourally active in males ofCydia andGrapholita (Grapholitini), either as main pheromone compound, attraction synergist or attraction inhibitor. Their reciprocal attractive/antagonistic activity in a number of species enables specific communication with these four compounds.Pammene, as well as otherGrapholita andCydia responded to the monoenic 8- or 10-dodecen-1-yl acetates. Of the tribes Olethreutini and Eucosmini,Hedya, Epiblema, Eucosma, andNotocelia trimaculana were also attracted to 8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetates, but several otherNotocelia to 10,12-tetradecadien-1-yl acetates. The female sex pheromones ofC. fagiglandana, C. pyrivora, C. splendana, Epiblema foenella andNotocelia roborana were identified. (E,E)- and (E,Z)-8,10-dodecadien-1-yl acetate are producedvia a commonE9 desaturation pathway inC. splendana. CallingC. nigricana andC. fagiglandana females are attracted to wingfanning males.

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  1. Department of Plant Protection Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-23053, Alnarp, Sweden

    Peter Witzgall, Marie Bengtsson & Jan Löfqvist

  2. Department of Zoology, National Institute of Agronomical Research, F-78026, Versailles cedex, France

    Jean-Pierre Chambon

  3. Department of Organic Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, S-10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    C. Rikard Unelius

  4. Department of Chemical Ecology, Göteborg University, S-41319, Göteborg, Sweden

    Monica Appelgren & Gunnar Bergström

  5. Plant Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary

    Gyorgy Makranczy & Miklos Tóth

  6. Tea Research Institute, The United Planters' Association of Southern India, 642127, Valparai, India

    N. Muraleedharan

  7. Plant Biotechnology Institute, National Research Council, S7N 0W9, Saskatoon, Canada

    Darwin W. Reed

  8. Wolkensteinstr. 83, I-39042, Brixen, Italy

    Klaus Hellrigl

  9. Swiss Federal Research Station, CH-8820, Wädenswil, Switzerland

    Hans-Ruedi Buser

  10. Department of Zoology, Lund University, S-22362, Lund, Sweden

    Eric Hallberg

  11. Department of Ecology, Lund University, S-22362, Lund, Sweden

    Christer Löfstedt

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Witzgall, P., Chambon, JP., Bengtsson, M. et al. Sex pheromones and attractants in the Eucosmini and Grapholitini (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). Chemoecology 7, 13–23 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01240633

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