A mono‐unsaturated acetate as sex attractant for the leaf miner moth Lithocolletis corylifoliella (Hübner) (Lep., Gracillariidae)

Abstract

In a field screening program of mono-unsaturated acetates in 1985 it was discovered that male Lithocolletis corylifoliella moths were attracted by (E)-4-dodecen-1-01 acetate (E4-12:Ac). Later on the attractivity of E4-12:Ac was compared with that of (E)-4,(Z)-7-tridecadien-l-ol acetate (EZ4,7-13:Ac), the compound which has been used as sex attractant for this species since 1977. Final experiments in 1990 were carried out with a new batch of E4-12:Ac, not containing the positional isomers E3-12:Ac and E5-12:Ac, which were present in small amounts in earlier tests. It was shown that the mono-unsaturated cornpound is at least as good as the more expensive EZ4,7-13:Ac, which is a component of the sex pheromone of the potato tuberworm moth Phthorimaeu operculelfu (Zeller) (Lep., Gelechiidae). 96-98. 23,

New sex attractants and inhibitors for 17 moth species from the families Gracillariidae, Tortricidae, Yponomeutidae, Oecophoridae, Pyralidae and Gelechiidae

“…pyrifoliella, and Ph. sorbi, the males of which are attracted to dodecenols, dodecadienols or their acetates (ROELOFS et al, 1977;VOER-MAN and HERREBOUT, 1978;HRDY et al, 1989;LAANMAA et al, 1991;VOERMAN, 1991;SHEARER, 1994).…”