Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) rediscovered in the Republic of North Macedonia by using sex attractant traps (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

Abstract

Theresimima ampellophaga (Bayle-Barelle, 1808) was known from only three sites in North Macedonia and has never been considered as a pest of grapevine in this territory. The last time it was recorded in North Macedonia about 80 years ago. Traps baited with synthetic sex attractant EFETOV-2 (racemic mixture of (2R)-butyl 2-dodecenoate and (2S)-butyl 2-dodecenoate) were set at two localities near Ohrid Lake at Trebenishta village and between Ljubanishta village and Sveti Naum Monastery in 2016, in Vardar river valley near Demir Kapija in 2017 and near Dojran Lake in 2018. In North Macedonia sex attractants were used for the detection of this species for the first time. We recorded Th. ampellophaga in traps at all four monitored localities.

To the distribution of the genus Negotinthia O. Gorbunov, 2001 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) in the Crimea

“…These sex attractants were produced by PHEROBANK®, Wijk bij Duurstede, the Netherlands. The application of the female sex attractants has one negative aspect: this method allows to collect only males (Subchev et al 2010(Subchev et al , 2012(Subchev et al , 2013(Subchev et al , 2016Efetov et al 2014aEfetov et al -b, 2016Razov et al 2017;Can Cengiz et al 2018;Can et al 2019;Vrenozi et al 2019;Drouet et al 2021;Efetov & Gorbunov 2021;Nahirnić-Beshkova et al 2021). The females and some males were collected by net when feeding on flowers (Figs 2-5) or flying around the larval host plants Potentilla spp.…”

Synthesis and field testing of esters of (2R)-butan-2-ol and (2S)-butan-2-ol and monounsaturated fatty acids as sex attractants for the males of Procridinae species (Lepidoptera: Zygaenidae)

“…Previously, we had already synthesised (2R)-butan-2-yl dodec-2-enoate (named EFETOV-S-2, another name is (2R)-butyl 2-dodecenoate) and (2S)-butan-2-yl dodec-2-enoate (named EFETOV-S-S-2, another name is (2S)-butyl 2-dodecenoate). In different countries of the world field experiments with these esters (alone or in racemic mixture) have confirmed their attractive properties for almost 30 Zygaenidae species (Can et al 2019;Can Cengiz et al 2018;Efetov et al 2014cEfetov et al , 2016Efetov et al , 2018Efetov et al , 2019bEfetov et al , 2022Nahirnic-Beshkova et al 2021;Vrenozi et al 2019).…”

New results of testing the attractant EFETOV-2 in the Far East of Russia, Siberia and South Africa

“…The attractive properties of esters noted above were studied in the field experiments for ten years in more than 20 countries of the world such as Albania, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Laos, North Macedonia, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, etc. It was shown that enantiomers of butan-2-yl dodec-2-enoate and butan-2-yl dodec-5-enoate are sex attractants for males of 26 Zygaenidae species from seven genera: Illiberis (one species), Theresimima (one species), Goazrea (one species), Rhagades (three species), Adscita (nine species), Jordanita (eight species) and Zygaena (three species) (Efetov et al 2016(Efetov et al , 2018(Efetov et al , 2019bCan Cengiz et al 2018;Can et al 2019;Vrenozi et al 2019;Drouet et al 2021;Nahirnić-Beshkova et al 2021). Besides this, three species of other families of Insecta were attracted to the substances from the series 'EFETOV-2', viz.…”