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You searched for: Publication Year 1973 Remove constraint Publication Year: 1973 Subject Metriona bicolor Remove constraint Subject: Metriona bicolor Subject Chelymorpha cassidea Remove constraint Subject: Chelymorpha cassidea Subject term Calystegia sepium Remove constraint Subject term: Calystegia sepium
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1. Chemical basis of host selection in four stenophagous species that feed on convolvulus and calystegia at belleville, ontario

Author:
MOHYUDDIN, A.I.
Source:
Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 1973 v. no. pp. 201-212
ISSN:
0013-8703
Subject:
Calystegia sepium; Chelymorpha cassidea; Deloyala guttata; Metriona bicolor; Monodactylus; host preferences; insects; moieties; tropane alkaloids; Ontario
Abstract:
... The chemical basis of host selection in stenophagous insects, Oidaematophorus monodactylus, Metriona bicolor, Deloyala guttata and Chelymorpha cassidea was studied. A compound with the molecular formula C₅H₃NO₄, isolated from a water extract of Calystegia sepium, acted as a recognition factor for O. monodactylus and D. guttata but not for M. bicolor and C. cassidea, indicating that insects feeding ...
DOI:
10.1111/j.1570-7458.1973.tb00266.x