Abstract
Cuticular rinses of the female stable fly,Stomoxys calcitrans (L.), contained saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons that incited the male fly to attempt couplation. These compounds present in GLC trappings of the saturated hydrocarbon fraction showing highest biological activity were mono- and dimethyl-substituted hentria- and tritriacontanes. Active trappings from the unsaturated hydrocarbon fraction contained (Z)-9-hentriacontene, (Z)-9-tritriacontene, and methyl-branched hentria- and tritriacontenes.
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Uebel, E.C., Sonnet, P.E., Bierl, B.A. et al. Sex pheromone of the stable flyl: Isolation and preliminary identification of compounds that induce mating strike behavior. J Chem Ecol 1, 377–385 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00988839
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