Cuticular Extracts of Five Common Mantids (Mantodea: Mantidae) of the Eastern United States |
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| Authors: | Tappey H Jones Matthew D Moran LE Hurd |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia 24450, U.S.A.;bDepartment of Biology, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas 72032, U.S.A.;cDepartment of Biology, Washington &; Lee University, Lexington, Virginia 24450, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | We undertook a preliminary investigation of the cuticular extracts of five common mantid species in the eastern United States: Tenodera sinensis (Saussure), T. angustipennis (Saussure) and Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus) introduced from the Old World and Stagmomantis carolina (Johannson) and Bruneria borealis (Scudder), which are New World species. The major components of these mixtures were normal alkanes, predominately hentriacontane, or in the case of the parthenogenic species B. borealis, tritriacontane. Tricontanal was detected in the extracts of all five species, and smaller amounts of other aldehydes and n-tricontanol were detected in some species. Complex mixtures of methyl and dimethylalkanes also were present in these extracts. The composition of the cuticular hydrocarbons of these mantids may be an adaptation for reduction of evaporative water loss in these insects that inhabit open fields. |
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| Keywords: | Bruneria mantid chemical ecology cuticular extracts mantids Mantis Stagmomantis Tenodera |
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