Applied Entomology and Zoology (2005) 40, 63-68

Midori Fukaya, Hiroe Yasui, Tetsuya Yasuda, Toshiharu Akino and Sadao Wakamura (2005)
Female orientation to the male in the white-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) by visual and olfactory cues
Applied Entomology and Zoology 40 (1), 63-68
Abstract: White-spotted longicorn beetle, Anoplophora malasiaca (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), females were observed to use both olfactory and visual cues for orientation to males in the laboratory. When a freshly killed male was fixed at ca. 10 cm ahead and 5 cm to the right or left from a starting point on a 75° slope panel, 36% of the females oriented themselves toward the male before direct contact. Similar behavioral responses to a glass-rod model treated with male extract were observed. When a black or white glassrod treated with the extract was presented, the orientation toward the black rod was significantly greater than that to the white one. Few females oriented toward rods without extract. This indicates that the olfactory cue is essential for female orientation, and that a visual cue enhances the effect of the olfactory cue.
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Database assignments for author(s): Midori Fukaya, Hiroe Yasui, Tetsuya Yasuda, Toshiharu Akino, Sadao Wakamura

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution
pheromones/attractants/traps

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Anoplophora malasiaca