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1Istituto di Entomologia Agraria dell' Universitá di Napoli, 80055, Portici, Italy.
Journal of Chemical Ecology
|January 15, 2014
Abstract:
Virgin females of the citrophilous mealybugPseudococcus calceolariae (Mask.) deposit scent marks as trails on the substrate on which they rest or move. These substances elicit attraction and sexual behavior by conspecific males. The same responses were obtained when males were bioassayed on extracts from filter paper disks on which females had rested. The significance of scent trailing in mealybugs is discussed.

