Open AccessHYDROGEN CYANIDE IN THE DEFENSIVE SECRETIONS OF LARVAL PAROPSINI (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE)
Author(s) -
Moore B. P.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
australian journal of entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1440-6055
pISSN - 1326-6756
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-6055.1967.tb02135.x
Subject(s) - hydrogen cyanide , biology , larva , benzaldehyde , cyanide , glycoside , botany , insect , zoology , biochemistry , organic chemistry , chemistry , catalysis
Hydrogen cyanide, benzaldehyde and glucose have been identified as components of the larval defensive secretion in three species of leaf beetles, belonging to the genera Paropsis and Chrysophtharta . These substances, which at some stage may have been combined in the form of a glycoside, are apparently synthesized by the insects, rather than derived directly from the food plant.