CHANGES OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON PROFILES IN THE COCKROACHES NAUPHOETA-CINEREA AND LEUCOPHAEA-MADERAE REARED IN HETEROSPECIFIC GROUPS

Authors
EVERAERTS C FARINE JP BROSSUT R
Citation
C. Everaerts et al., CHANGES OF SPECIES-SPECIFIC CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON PROFILES IN THE COCKROACHES NAUPHOETA-CINEREA AND LEUCOPHAEA-MADERAE REARED IN HETEROSPECIFIC GROUPS, Entomologia experimentalis et applicata, 85(2), 1997, pp. 145-150
Citations number
53
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Entomologia experimentalis et applicata → ACNP
ISSN journal
00138703
Volume
85
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
145 - 150
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-8703(1997)85:2<145:COSCHP>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of the cockroaches Nauphoeta cinere a and Leucophaea maderae are species-specific when maintained in homos pecific rearings. When individuals were reared in mixed species coloni es, they initially remained in homospecific groups under different she lters. However, after 14 days they formed one heterospecific group wit h cuticular profiles showing characteristics of both species. When ind ividuals were returned in monospecific rearings, their cuticular hydro carbon profiles returned to species-specific ones within 3 weeks.