Review article

The attractants of the Tephritidae (diptera) family

Mario Bjeliš

Abstract

Attractants are the basis of all current harmful tephritids detection, monitoring and suppresion programs. They can be natural or synthetic by origin and range in composition from individual compounds to complex multi-component odors. Commonly used classification is to plant cairomones, food odors, sex pheromones, parapheromones as olfactory semiochemicals and visual attractants of different colors, shapes and rephlexy, as means of physical tephritids attraction. Together they all incorporate level of the knowledge of behavior and response of adult tephritids to offered stimulants, with the aim of developing suppresion programs.

Keywords

attractants; food odors; plant cairomones; parapheromones, sex pheromones, tephritids; visual attractants

Hrčak ID:

3622

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/3622

Publication date:

10.3.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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