Identification of the sex pheromone of the furniture carpet beetle, anthrenus flavipes leconte

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Fukui; Fumio Matsumura; Michael C. Ma; Wendell E. Burkholder

• Book ID: 104243088
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 218 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)91967-7

✦ Synopsis

Virgin female furniture carpet beetles, Anthrenus flavipes, LeConte release a chemical that attracts males and stimulates sexual responses. The female emits this substance early in the photophase while she is in a stationary "headstand" posture; this activity is referred