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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 10, Pages 1004-1015Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-016-0757-0
Keywords
Solena amplexicaulis; Volatiles; Coleoptera; Coccinellidae; Epilachna vigintioctopunctata; Chrysomelidae; Aulacophora foveicollis; olfactometer bioassay
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- West Bengal Department of Science and Technology (WB-DST), India [889 (Sanc.)/ST/P/ST/2G-6/2013]
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Epilachna vigintioctopunctata Fabr. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Aulacophora foveicollis Lucas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are important pests of Solena amplexicaulis (Lam.) Gandhi (Cucurbitaceae), commonly known as creeping cucumber. The profiles of volatile organic compounds from undamaged plants, plants after 48 hr continuous feeding of adult females of either E. vigintioctopunctata or A. foveicollis, by adults of both species, and after mechanical damaging were identified and quantified by GC-MS and GC-FID analyses. Thirty two compounds were detected in volatiles of all treatments. In all plants, methyl jasmonate was the major compound. In Y-shaped glass tube olfactometer bioassays under laboratory conditions, both insect species showed a significant preference for complete volatile blends from insect damaged plants, compared to those of undamaged plants. Neither E. vigintioctopunctata nor A. foveicollis showed any preference for volatiles released by heterospecifically damaged plants vs. conspecifically damaged plants or plants attacked by both species. Epilachna vigintioctopunctata and A. foveicollis showed attraction to three different synthetic compounds, linalool oxide, nonanal, and E-2-nonenal in proportions present in volatiles of insect damaged plants. Both species were attracted by a synthetic blend of 1.64 mu g linalool oxide+3.86 mu g nonanal+2.23 mu g E-2-nonenal, dissolved in 20 mu l methylene chloride. This combination might be used as trapping tools in pest management strategies.
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