Nauphoeta cinerea

Laboratory studies have indicated that ozone at l%Mg/m (0.10 ppm) was lethal to adult houseflies Musca domestica L.) and caused them to lay fewer eggs. Two cockroach species Paraplaneta americana L. and Nauphoeta cinerea Oliver) and the red fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren) were exposed to ozone at SSSug/m (0.30 ppm) for up to 10 days. There was no unusual mortality or evidence of direct injury to individual insects. The fire ant workers were stimulated to migrate inside their nest initially, but further observations indicated no disruption of social behavior. These reports do not suggest that free-ranging insects would be directly affected by ambient concentrations of ozone in natural ecosystems or agroecosystems. 

Fig. 6.1. Pheromone-mediated courtship sequences in Blattella germanica (Blat-tellidae) and Nauphoeta cinerea (Blaberidae). In B. germanica, as in most blat-tellids and blattids, the female calls and releases a long-range attractant (a) and after contact (b) the male raises his wings and emits volatiles from his tergites...

Bell, W. J. and Gorton, R. E., Jr. (1978). Informational analysis of agonistic behaviour and dominance hierarchy formation in a cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea. Behaviour 67 217-235. 

Clark, D. C., DeBano, S. J. and Moore, A. J. (1997). The influence of environmental quality on sexual selection in Nauphoeta cinerea (Dictyoptera Blaberidae). Behavioral Ecology 8 46-53. 

Territoriality and the influence of females on the spacing of males in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Behaviour 45 282-303. 

Fukui, M. and Takahashi, S. (1983). Studies on the mating behavior of the cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier) (Dictyoptera Blaberidae) III. Isolation and identification of intermale recognition pheromone. Applied Entomology and Zoology 18 351-356. 

Sexual selection in Nauphoeta cinerea inherited mating preference Behavior Genetics 19 717-724. 

Roth, L. M. and Dateo, G. P. (1966). A sex pheromone produced by males of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Insect Physiology 12 255-265. 

Determinants of dominant-subordinate interactions in males of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Biology and Behavior 8 117-139. 

Methylthiazolidine and 4-ethylguaiacol, male sex pheromone components of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae) a reinvestigation. Journal of Chemical Ecology 18 2261-2276. 

Smith, S. K. and Breed, M. D. (1982). Olfactory cues in discrimination among individuals in dominance hierarchies in the cockroach, Nauphoeta cinerea. Physiological Entomology 7 337-341. 

Ultrastructure of the glands producing sex pheromones of the male Nauphoeta cinerea (Insecta, Dictyoptera). Zoomorphology 105 133-142. 

Menon M. (1986) Morphological evidence for a probable secretory site of the male sex pheromones of Nauphoeta cinerea (Blattaria Blaberidae). 2. Electron microscope studies. J. Morphol. 187, 69-80. 

Sreng L., Leoncini I. and Clement J. L. (1999) Regulation of sex pheromone production in the male Nauphoeta cinerea cockroach role of brain extracts, corpora allata (CA), and juvenile hormone (JH). Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 40, 165-172. 

Roth L. M. (1962) Hypersexual activity induced in females of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Science 138, 1267-1269. 

Sirugue D., Bonnard O., Le Quere J. L., Farine J.-P. and Brossut R. (1992) 2-Methylthiazolidine and 4-ethylguaiacol, male sex pheromone components of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea (Dictyoptera, Blaberidae) a reinvestigation../. Chem. Ecol. 18, 2261-2276. 

Sreng L. (1979a) Pheromones and sexual behaviour in Nauphoeta cinerea (Olivier) (Insecta Dictyoptera). Cr. Acad. Sci. D. Nat. 289, 687-690. 

Sreng L. (1990) Seducin, male sex pheromone of the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea isolation, identification, and bioassay. J. Chem. Ecol. 16, 2899-2912. 

Everaerts et al. (1997) reported species-specific profiles based on comparison of CHCs from L. maderae with those from Nauphoeta cinerea, not an urban pest but widely used by herpetologists. In the same paper the authors mentioned unpublished results on a good species-specific correlation of CHCs in 30 cockroach species. 

Everaerts, C., Farine, J.-P. and Brossut, R. (1997). Changes of species cuticular hydrocarbons profiles in the cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea and Leucophaea maderae reared in heterospecific groups. Entomol. Exp. Applic., 85,145-150. 

I will now tell you the story about bioassays of our enantiomers of JH III and JH I by zoologists. Both the enantiomers of JH III were bioassayed by Lanzrein and coworkers in Switzerland.36 In the Galleria mellonella wax test, a local morphogenetic assay, (-l-)-JH III (63) was 5240 times more active than (—)-JH III (63 ). In a systemic morphogenetic assay with the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea, 380 times less... 

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