Interspecific activity of semiochemicals among sibling species ofPissodes (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) |
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Authors: | Thomas W Phillips Gerald N Lanier |
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Affiliation: | (1) Present address: Dept. of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, 3103 McCarty Hall, 32611 Gainesville, FL;(2) Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York, USA;(3) College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 13210 Syracuse, New York |
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Abstract: | Pissodes strobi, P. approximatus, andP. nemorensis are sibling species of pine weevils that can hybridize in the laboratory but are presumed to be reproductively isolated in nature. Males of all three species produce the terpenoids grandisol and grandisal; these compounds serve as an aggregation pheromone forP. approximatus andP. nemorensis when deployed with odors from pine bolts. A series of field experiments examined the possibility of cross-attraction among the three species. Tests in New York and Florida found that parapatrically distributedP. approximatus andP. nemorensis were cross-attractive, but different photoperiodic conditioning was required for pheromone production in males of the two species. Long-day pheromone production (P. approximatus-type.) was inherited in interspecific hybrids. Other tests showed thatP. strobi males, or hybrid males from crosses ofP. strobi withP. approximatus, were not attractive to sympatricP. approximatus. When the response ofP. strobi was assessed to males of eitherP. strobi orP. approximatus confined on white pine leaders (the breeding site ofP. strobi), no evidence of cross-attraction or pheromone activity was found;P. strobi were caught in equal numbers onP. strobi-baited leaders,P. approximatus-baited leaders, and unbaited leaders. Tests of interspecific interactions found that maleP. strobi produce an allelochemical signal that interrupts the response ofP. approximatus to its natural or synthetic aggregation pheromone. This interspecific response is apparently adaptive for members of both species (classified as an allomone-kairomone or synomone) because it may ultimately serve to prevent interspecific matings that would lower the fitness of the parents. |
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Keywords: | Pissodes Coleoptera Curculionidae aggregation pheromone cross-attraction synomone reproductive isolation grandisol grandisal |
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