Glossina pallidipes

Carlson D. A., Nelson D. R., Langley P. A., Coates T. W. and Leegwater-Vander Linden M. E. (1984) Contact sex pheromone in the tsetse fly Glossina pallidipes (Austen) identification and synthesis. J. Chem. Ecol. 10, 429 150. 

Kuwahara, S. and Mori, K. (1983). Pheromone synthesis. Part LXII. Synthesis of all of the three possible stereoisomers of 13,23-dimethylpentatriacontane, a sex pheromone of the tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes. Agric. Biol. Chem., 47, 2599-2606. 

Tsetse flies are notorious vectors of African trypanosomiasis, well known as sleeping sickness in humans and as nagana in cattle. A female-produced sex stimulant pheromone of a tsetse fly (Glossina pallidipes) was identified by Whitehead etal. and also by Carlson et al. in 1981-1982 as 13,23-dimethylpentatriacontane (117, Figure 4.77). Due to the symmetrical nature of 117, there are three stereoisomers (13/ ,23/ )-, (135,235)- and meso-117. 

Figure 4.77 Synthesis of the sex pheromone of a tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes. Modified by permission of Shokabo Publishing Co., Ltd...

Nelson, D. R. and Carlson, D. A. (1986). Cuticular hydrocarbons of the tsetse flies Glossina morsitans, G. austeni and G. pallidipes. Insect Biochem., 16,403M I6. 

Glossina morsitans morsitans, G. austeni, and G. pallidipes. Insect Biochem., 16, 403 416. 

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