@article{01becfe3e4bf4646846655e033f4c070,
title = "2,3-Hexanediols as Sex Attractants and a Female-produced Sex Pheromone for Cerambycid Beetles in the Prionine Genus Tragosoma",
abstract = "Recent work suggests that closely related cerambycid species often share pheromone components, or even produce pheromone blends of identical composition. However, little is known of the pheromones of species in the subfamily Prioninae. During field bioassays in California, males of three species in the prionine genus Tragosoma were attracted to 2,3-hexanediols, common components of male-produced aggregation pheromones of beetles in the subfamily Cerambycinae. We report here that the female-produced sex pheromone of Tragosoma depsarium {"}sp. nov. Laplante{"} is (2R,3R)-2,3-hexanediol, and provide evidence from field bioassays and electroantennography that the female-produced pheromone of both Tragosoma pilosicorne Casey and T. depsarium {"}harrisi{"} LeConte may be (2S,3R)-2,3-hexanediol. Sexual dimorphism in the sculpting of the prothorax suggests that the pheromone glands are located in the prothorax of females. This is the second sex attractant pheromone structure identified from the subfamily Prioninae, and our results provide further evidence of pheromonal parsimony within the Cerambycidae, in this case extending across both subfamily and gender lines.",
keywords = "2,3-hexanediol, Cerambycidae, Longhorned beetle, Mating behavior, Pheromone, Prioninae",
author = "Ray, {Ann M.} and Barbour, {James D.} and McElfresh, {J. Steven} and Moreira, {Jardel A.} and Ian Swift and Wright, {Ian M.} and Alenka {\v Z}uni{\v c} and Mitchell, {Robert F.} and Graham, {Elizabeth E.} and Alten, {Ronald L.} and Millar, {Jocelyn G.} and Hanks, {Lawrence M.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgments We thank S. Laplante and S. Lingafelter for taxonomic assistance, E. Gates and R. Stone for access to field sites at the University of California Lick Observatory, P. and T. Decker and the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for access to field sites at Rancho los Mochos Boy Scout camp, M. Hamilton for access to the University of California James San Jacinto Mountain Reserve, R. Heltebrake and the Long Beach Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America for access to field sites in the vicinity of Barton Flats, T. Coleman (USDA Forest Service) for information about field sites, and K. Barbour, M. Krugner, and R. Waterworth for assistance with field work. Scanning electron microscopy was made possible through collaboration between AMR and Bugscope, a project of the Imaging Technology Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Urbana, IL (http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/). This project was supported by the Robert Borcer Endowment (Xavier University, to AMR), the Francis M. and Harlie M. Clark Research Support Grants (UIUC, to AMR, RFM, and EEG), the Alphawood Foundation (to LMH), and the National Research Initiative of the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, grant number # 2009-35302-17457 (to JDB, JGM, and LMH).",
year = "2012",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1007/s10886-012-0181-z",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "38",
pages = "1151--1158",
journal = "Journal of Chemical Ecology",
issn = "0098-0331",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "9",
}