Reticulitermes lucifugus

Uva, R, Clement, J.-L. and Bagneres, A.-G. (2004a). Colonial and geographic variations in behaviour, cuticular hydrocarbons and mtDNA of Italian populations of Reticulitermes lucifugus (Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae). Insect Soc., 51, 163-170. 

Baker, R., Parton, A. H. and Howse, P. E. (1982) Identification of an acyclic diterpene alcohol in the defense secretion of soldiers of Reticulitermes lucifugus. Experientia, 38, 297. 

Buchli, H. (1960) Les tropismes lors de la pariade des imagos de Reticulitermes lucifugus R. Vie et Milieu, 6, 308-15. 

Vauchot, B., Provost, E., Bagneres, A.-G., Riviere, G., Roux, M. and Clement, J.-L. (1998). Differential adsorption of allospecific hydrocarbons by the cuticles of two termite species, Reticulitermes santonensis and R. lucifugus grassei, living in a mixed colony. J. Insect Physiol., 44, 59-66. 

Fig. 16.3 Distribution of Reticulitermes species in Europe. S = R. santonensis. L = R. lucifugus. Populations LI and LII = R. 1. grassei, LVI = R. /. banyulensis (from Partoneta/., 1981).

Fig. 16.4 Results of olfactometer tests with sternal gland extracts of Reticulitermes. The thickness of arrows represents proportions of sexuals responding to each of four air inlets with extracts of R. santonensis (Rs), R. lucifugus grassei (Rl) and R. 1. banylensis (Rb) (from Clement, in Parton et al., 1981).

Fig. 16.5 Relative proportions of the two major volatile components of the sternal gland of female sexuals of Reticulitermes santonensis (a), R. lucifugus grassei (b), and R. /. banyulensis of population LVI in Fig. 16.3. (c) and LIV (d) (from Parton et al., 1981).

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