Chemistry of Mandibular Gland Secretions of Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina Spp.)1

Wheeler, J. W.; Blum, Murray S.; Daly, Howell V.; Kislow, C. J.; Brand, J. M.

doi:10.1093/aesa/70.5.635

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“…Such glandular terpenoids are likely to function in defensive behaviour (Cruz-Lopez et al, 2005). The defensive use of glandular terpenoids, either obtained from host plants or synthesized (Laurent et al, 2003), is also known from other insects, such as termites (Bagnères et al, 1990), ants (Blum and Brand, 1972;Morgan et al, 2003), larvae of the sawfly Neodiprion sertifer (Eisner et al, 1974), and other bees (Wheeler et al, 1977;Cane, 1986). In the present case, terpenoids may have a similar function.…”

Section: Potential Functions Of Cuticular Terpenoidsmentioning

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Smelling like resin: terpenoids account for species-specific cuticular profiles in Southeast-Asian stingless bees

2009

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Insects may be unique in having a cuticle with a species-specific chemical profile. In social insects, colony survival depends not only on species-specific but also on colony-specific cuticular compounds with hydrocarbons playing an important role in the communication systems of ants, termites, wasps and bees. We investigated inter-and intraspecific differences in the composition of compounds found on the body surface of seven paleotropical stingless bee species (Apidae: Meliponini) at two different sites in Borneo (Sabah, Malaysia). Besides hydrocarbons, the body surface of all seven stingless bee species comprised terpenoid compounds, a substance class that has not been reported for chemical profiles of any social insect so far. Moreover, the chemical profile of some species differed fundamentally in the composition of terpenoids with one group (e.g. sesquiterpenes) being present in one species, but missing in another. Chemical profiles of different colonies from the same species showed the same hydrocarbonand terpenoid compounds over different regions, as tested for Tetragonilla collina and Tetragonula melanocephala. However, chemical profiles differed quantitatively between the different colonies especially in T. melanocephala. It is likely that the terpenoids are derived from plant resins because stingless bees are known to collect and use large amounts of resins for nest construction and defence, suggesting an environmental origin of the terpenoids in the chemical profile of paleotropical stingless bees.

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Section: Potential Functions Of Cuticular Terpenoidsmentioning

confidence: 61%

Smelling like resin: terpenoids account for species-specific cuticular profiles in Southeast-Asian stingless bees

2009

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The chemical characterization of the cephalic secretion of the Australian colletid bee, Hylaeus albonitens (Gnathoprosop's Cockerell)

Batra

Plimmer

1990

Chin. J. Chem.

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The cephalic extract of Australian colletid bee, Hylaeus albonitens, comprises 10 components: linalool, citronellal, neral, geranial, nerolic acid, geranic acid, heptadecane, pentacosane, Z,Z‐ and E,E‐9,12‐octadecadienoic acid. Quantification of these major components suggested it to be an aggregation pheromone composition. The fairly large amounts of 9,12‐octadecadienoic acids have not been reported before in the cephalic extract of bees. The chromatographic pattern is quite different from the previous reports on the constituents of mandibular glands of American Hylaeus modestus and the related European and North American Colletes bees.

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Sociochemicals of Bees

Duffield¹,

Wheeler²,

Eickwort³

1984

Chemical Ecology of Insects

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Chemistry of Mandibular Gland Secretions of Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina Spp.)1

Cited by 14 publications

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Smelling like resin: terpenoids account for species-specific cuticular profiles in Southeast-Asian stingless bees

Smelling like resin: terpenoids account for species-specific cuticular profiles in Southeast-Asian stingless bees

The chemical characterization of the cephalic secretion of the Australian colletid bee, Hylaeus albonitens (Gnathoprosop's Cockerell)

Sociochemicals of Bees

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