Chemical Defense of an Ozaenine Bombardier Beetle From New Guinea | Zendy

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Chemical Defense of an Ozaenine Bombardier Beetle From New Guinea

Author(s) -

Thomas Eisner,

George E. Ball,

Braden L. Roach,

Daniel J. Aneschansley,

Maria Eisner,

Curtis L. Blankespoor,

Jerrold Meinwald

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

psyche a journal of entomology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1687-7438

pISSN - 0033-2615

DOI - 10.1155/1989/31512

Subject(s) - new guinea , subfamily , tribe , zoology , biology , chemical communication , ecology , ethnology , anthropology , history , biochemistry , sex pheromone , sociology , gene

We had occasion recently to study 3 live specimens of Pseudozaena orientalis opaca, an ozaenine carabid beetle (subfamily Paussinae, tribe Ozaenini) from New Guinea, and report here on the biology and chemistry of its defensive spray mechanism. A number of New World ozaenines had previously been studied chemically and shown to be “bombardiers” that discharge a hot quinonoid mixture (Aneshansley et al. 1969, 1983; Eisner and Aneshansley 1982; Eisner et al. 1977; Roach et al. 1979). Pseudozaena proved no exception.

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