Species Specificity of the Putative Male Antennal Aphrodisiac Pheromone in Leptopilina heterotoma, Leptopilina boulardi, and Leptopilina victoriae

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-331927
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.33192

Weiss, Ingmar ; Ruther, Joachim ; Stöckl, Johannes

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Abstract

Male antennal aphrodisiac pheromones have been suggested to elicit female receptiveness in several parasitic Hymenoptera, including Leptopilina boulardi. None of the proposed pheromones, however, has been fully identified to date. It is also unknown whether these antennal pheromones are species specific, because the species specificity of mate recognition and courtship elicitation in Leptopilina ...