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THE chemistry and specificity of sex pheromones in two subfamilies of the lepidopterous family Tortricidae1,2 have been studied because of the large number of economically important insects included. We identified the pheromone structure of the red-banded leaf roller moth, Argyrotaenia velutinana (subfamily Tortricinae), as cis-11-tetradecenyl acetate3, and now report the pheromone structure of the oriental fruit moth, Grapholitha molesta (subfamily Olethreutinae), to be cis-8-dodecenyl acetate (I).
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ROELOFS, W., COMEAU, A. & SELLE, R. Sex Pheromone of the Oriental Fruit Moth. Nature 224, 723 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224723a0
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