Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Specificity of response to pheromones in the genusIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

  • Published:
Journal of Chemical Ecology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Seventeen species ofIps were laboratory or field tested for the specificity of their response to male-produced aggregating pheromones. In the laboratory, some species appeared not to differentiate among their own pheromones and those of closely related species, whether the pheromones were bioassayed individually or in direct competition. Other species showed strong preference for their own pheromones in competition with those of closely related species, even though they had demonstrated strong attraction to pheromones of the related species. Cross-responsiveness amongI. confusus, I. montanus, andI. paraconfusus, and betweenI. mexicanus andI. concinnus, was confirmed in field tests. Moreover, wildI. paraconfusus females entered the nuptial chambers of males ofI. montanus andI. confusus but not those of the more distantly relatedI. mexicanus. It is hypothesized that specificity of response to aggregating pheromone is important in the maintenance of reproductive isolation among sympatricIps and that the lack of specificity among closely related species enforces the parapatric distributions characteristic of these species.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Bedard, W.D., andBrowne, L.E. 1969. A delivery-trapping system for evaluating insect chemical attractants in nature.J. Econ. Entomol. 62:1202–1203.

    Google Scholar 

  • Birch, M.C., andWood, D.L. 1975. Mutual inhibition of the attractant pheromone response of two species ofIps.J. Chem. Ecol. 1:101–113.

    Google Scholar 

  • Borden, J.H. 1967. Factors influencing the response ofIps confusus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to male attractant.Can. Entomol. 99:1164–1193.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hopping, G.R. 1963. The natural groups of species in the genusIps De Geer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in North America.Can. Entomol. 95:508–516.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hopping, G.R. 1965. North American species in group IX ofIps De Geer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).Can. Entomol. 97:422–434.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N. 1967. Biosystematic, cytological, and sex ratio studies of closely related bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier G.N. 1970a. Sex pheromones: abolition of specificity in hybrid bark beetles.Science 169:71–72.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N. 1970b. Biosystematics of North AmericanIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Hopping's Group IX.Can. Entomol. 102:1139–1163.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N. 1970c. Biosystematics of the genusIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in North America. Hopping's Group III.Can. Entomol. 102:1404–1423.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N. 1972. Biosystematics of the genusIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in North America. Hopping's groups IV and X.Can. Entomol. 104:361–388.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N., andBurkholder, W.E. 1974. Sex pheromones in the speciation of Coleoptera. Pages 116–189,in Birch, M.C. (ed.), Pheromones. Elsevier, North Holland.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N., andCameron, E.A. 1969. Secondary sex characters in the North American species of the genusIps De Geer (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).Can. Entomol. 101:862–870.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lanier, G.N., Birch, M.C., Schmitz, R.F., andFurniss, M.M. 1972. Pheromones ofIps pini (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): variation in response among three populations.Can. Entomol. 104:1917–1923.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lindquist, E.E. 1969. Review of holarctic tarsenemid mites (Arcarina: Prostigmata) parasitizing eggs of Ipine bark beetles.Mem. Entomol. Soc. Can., No. 60.

  • Piston, J.J., andLanier, G.N. 1974. Pheromones ofIps pini (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Response to interpopulational hybrids and relative attractiveness of males boring in two host species.Can. Entomol. 106:247–251.

    Google Scholar 

  • Renwick, J.A.A., andVité, J.P. 1972. Pheromones and host volatiles that govern aggregation of the six-spined engraver beetle,Ips calligraphus.J. Insect. Physiol. 18:1215–1219.

    Google Scholar 

  • Silverstein, R.M., Rodin, J.O., andWood, D.L. 1966. Sex attractants in frass produced by maleIps confusus in ponderosa pine.Science 154:509–510.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vité, J.P., andGara, R.I. 1962. Volatile attractants from ponderosa pine attacked by bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 21:251–273.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vité, J.P., andRenwick, J.A.A. 1971. Population aggregating pheromone in the bark beetle,Ips grandicollis.J. Insect Physiol. 17:1699–1705.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vité, J.P., Bakke, A., andRenwick, J.A.A. 1972, Pheromones inIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae): occurrence and production.Can. Entomol. 104:1967–1975.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vité, J.P., Gara, R.I., andVon Scheller, H.D. 1964. Field observations on the response to attractants of bark beetles infesting southern pines.Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. 22:461–470.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wilkinson, R.C. 1964. Attraction and development ofIps bark beetle populations in artificially infested pine bolts exposed on fire towers and turntables in Florida.Florida Entomol. 47:57–64.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wood, D.L. 1970. Pheromones of bark beetles, pp. 301–316,in D. L. Wood, R. M. Silverstein, and M. Nakajima (eds.), Control of insect behavior by natural products. Academic Press, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wood, D.L. 1972. Selection and colonization of ponderosa pine by bark beetles,in Insect/Plant Relationships, H. F. van Emden (ed.).Symp. R. Entomol. Soc. 6:101–117.

  • Wood, D.L., andBushing, R.W., 1963. The olfactory response ofIps confusus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) to the secondary attraction in the laboratory.Can. Entomol. 95:1066–1078.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wood, D.L., Browne, L.E., Silverstein, R.M., andRodin, J.O. 1966. Sex pheromones of bark beetles. I. Mass production, bioassay, source, and isolation of the sex pheromone ofIps confusus (LeC.)J. Insect Physiol. 12:523–536.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  • Wood, D.L., Stark, R.W., Silverstein, R.M., andRodin, J.O. 1967. Unique synergistic effects produced by the principal sex attractant compounds ofIps confusus (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).Nature 215:206.

    Google Scholar 

  • Young, J.C., Silverstein, R.M., andBirch, M.C. 1973. Aggregation pheromones of the bark beetleIps confusus: Isolation and identification.J. Insect Physiol. 19:2273–2277.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Entomology, College of Environmental Science and Forestry State University of New York, Syracuse, New York

    G. N. Lanier

  2. Division of Entomology and Parasitology, University of California, Berkeley, California

    D. L. Wood

Authors
  1. G. N. Lanier
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. D. L. Wood
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Study supported in part by the National Science Foundation (GB 2972), U.S. Forest Service (No. 5), California Division of Forestry, T. B. Walker and Surdna Foundations, and various forest industries.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Lanier, G.N., Wood, D.L. Specificity of response to pheromones in the genusIps (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). J Chem Ecol 1, 9–23 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987717

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00987717

Key words

Search

Navigation