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Constituents of Wing Gland and Abdominal Hair Pencil Secretions of Male African Sugarcane borer,Eldana Saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Constituents of Wing Gland and Abdominal Hair Pencil Secretions of Male African Sugarcane borer,Eldana Saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

B V Burger, A E Nell, D Smit, H S Spies, W M Mackenroth, D Groche, P R Atkinson

J Chem Ecol. 1993 Oct;19(10):2255-77.

PMID: 24248574

Abstract:

In addition totrans-3,7-dimethyl-6-octen-4-olide (eldanolide), vanillin, and 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, identified by French workers in the wing gland and abdominal hair pencil secretions of the male African sugarcane borer,Eldana saccharina, we have, in an earlier note, reported the presence of several other terpenoid, aromatic, and unbranched-chain compounds such as, (Z)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-dienoic acid, 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanol, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol, 1-octadecane thiol, 16-hexadecanolide, and 18-octadecanolide in these secretions. In the present paper experimental details and spectral evidence supporting the identification of these compounds, as well as the identification of (Z)-9-hexadecenal and cw-3,7-di-methyl-6-octen-4-olide (cis-eldanolide), are reported. Using electroantennography it was found that male and female antennae reacted approximately equally strongly to both secretions. This result was confirmed in analyses of the secretions using coupled gas chromatography-electroantennography and it was found that male as well as female antennae responded to eldanolide. Vanillin, substituted phenols related to vanillin, and some oxygenated monoterpenes elicited weak responses in male and female antennae. In some analyses 6,10,14-trimethyl-2-pentadecanol, present in the secretions of the insect, gave a strong antennal response. The results obtained in dynamic and static headspace determinations showed that several of the organic compounds present in the glandular secretions are released in detectable quantities and are present in widely varying quantitative ratios in the effluvia of individual calling male moths.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP109295	16-Hexadecanolide		109-29-5	Price

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