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Search for a sex pheromone in Triatoma mazzottii (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)
J C Rojas1, A Ramirez-Rovelo, L Cruz-López
1Laboratorio de Ecología Química, Centro de Investigaciones Ecológicas del Sureste, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
Journal of Medical Entomology
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
Hexane extracts of volatile substances from sexually mature male and female Triatoma mazzottii Usinger, collected with cold glass trap (-10 degrees C) and evaluated in a wind tunnel, demonstrated the absence of a sex pheromone. The females failed to secrete a liquid from the sixth and seventh abdominal sternite.