Tiger moth

Female tiger moths signify their presence to male moths by giving off a sex attractant (pheromone) The sex attractant has been isolated and found to be a 2 methyl branched alkane having a molecular weight of 254 What is this material... 

Z,9S,10 )-9,10-Epoxyhenicos-6-ene (13) is the female sex pheromone of moths such as ruby tiger moth (Phragmatobiafuliginosa), fruit-piercing moth (Oraesia excavata), and painted apple moth (Teia anartoides). Scheme 23 summarizes Shi s synthesis of 13 based on Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD) [36]. Mori synthesized 13 employing lipase to prepare A (Scheme 24) [37]. Alkylation of the acetylide anion C was possible neither with tosylate nor with iodide, but triflate B could alkylate C to give D. 

A quest for alkaloids the curious relationship between tiger moths and plants containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids... 

Adams, J. K. (1987). The Defenses of Adult Tiger Moths (Lepidoptera Arctiidae) ... 

Aplin, R. T. and Rothschild, M. (1972). Poisonous alkaloids in the body tissues of the garden tiger moth (Arctia caja L.) and the cinnabar moth (Tyria (= Callimorpha) jacobaeae L.) (Lepidoptera). In Toxins of Animal and Plant Origin, eds. A. de Vries and K. Kochva. pp. 579-595. London Gordon and Breach. 

Bisset, G. W., Grazer, J. F. D., Rothschild, M. and Schachter, M. (1959). A choline ester and other substances in the garden tiger moth, Arctia caja (L.). Journal of Physiology 146 38-39. 

Fullard, J. H., Simmons, J. A. and Saillant, P. A. (1994). Jamming bat echolocation the dogbane tiger moth Cycnia tenera times its clicks to the terminal attack calls of the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus. Journal of Experimental Biology 194 285-298. 

Jacobson, N. and Weller, S. J. (2001). A Cladistic Study of the Tiger Moth Family Arctiidae (Noctuoidea) Based on Larval and Adult Morphology. Lanham, MD Thomas Say Publications, Entomological Society of America. 

Roque-Albelo, L. (2000). The tiger moths (Arctiidae) of the Galapagos Islands, their biogeography and life history. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Lepidopterists Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, July 2000. 

Rothschild, M. and Aplin, R. T. (1971). Toxins in tiger moths (Arctiidae Lepidoptera). Pesticide Chemistry 3 177-182. 

Schneider, D., Schulz, S., Priesner, E., Ziesmann, J. and Franke, W. (1998). Autodetection and chemistry of female and male pheromone in both sexes of the tiger moth Panaxia quadripunctaria. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 182 153-161. 

Simmons, R. B. (2001). Phylogenetic studies of mimetic tiger moths based on... 

Simmons, R. B. and Weller, S. J. (2002). What kind of signals do mimetic tiger moths send A phylogenetic test of wasp mimicry systems (Lepidoptera Arctiidae Euchromiini). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series 269 983-990. 

Watson, A. and Goodger, D. T. (1986). Catalogue of the neotropical tiger-moths. 

Weller, S. J., Jacobsen, N. L. and Conner, W. E. (2000a). The evolution of chemical defences and mating systems in tiger moths (Lepidoptera Arctiidae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 68 557-578. 

Chapters in this volume consider how plants use chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores the complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination tritrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, and parasitoids, and the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore hosts the semiochemically mediated behaviors of mites pheromone communication in spiders and cockroaches the ecological dependence of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host plants and the selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of moths. 

Since it is an alkane, the sex attractant of the tiger moth has a molecular formula of C ,112 , 2. The number of carbons and hydrogens may be calculated from its molecular weight. 

Roelofs, W.L. and Carde, R.T. (1971). Hydrocarbon sex pheromone in tiger moths (Arctiidae). Science, 171,684-686. 

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