Trogoderma glabrum

Shapas, T.J., Burkholder, W.E., and Boush, G.M. 1977. Population suppression of Trogoderma glabrum by using pheromone luring for protozoan pathogen dissemination. J. Econ. Entomol. 70, 469-474. 

K Mori, H Mori, H. Sugai. Biochemical preparation of both the enantiomers of methyl-3-hydroxypentanoate and their conversion to the enantiomers of4-hexanol-ide, the pheromone of Trogoderma glabrum. Tetrahedron 41 919-925, 1985. 

The evidence for copulation release activity has been demonstrated with several insects Costelytra zealandica Trogoderma glabrum Llmonius canus Tribollum confusum Tenebrlo molitor, and Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (4). However, erectin of C. chlnensis was the first to be identified, and it is involved only in copulation release activity. 

The protozoans, Mattesia trogodermae and Nosema whitei, have been used against Trogoderma glabrum (Shapas et al., 1977) and Tribolium castaneum (Milner, 1972) respectively, while the fungus, Beauveria bassiana has been applied against Sitophilus spp. and Tribolium spp. (Thuy et al., 1995). 

Shapas, T. J. and Burkholder, W. E. (1978) Patterns of sex pheromone release from adult females, and effects of air velocity and pheromone release rates on theoretical communication distances in Trogoderma glabrum, J, Chem, EcoL, 4, 395-408. 

Yarger, R. G., R. M. Silverstein, and W. E. Burkholder Sex pheromone of the female dermestid beetle Trogoderma glabrum (Herbst). J. Chem. Ecol. 1, 323—334... 

Four species of Trogoderma beetles use methyl-branched alkenals as their major sex pheromones 300). Aeration of T. gramrium and trapping of the volatiles on Porapak Q gave a 92 8 ratio of (Z)- to ( )-14-methyl-8-hexadecenal. The Z-isomer was the major component obtained from T. inclusum and T. variabile and the -isomer was obtained from T. glabrum. In laboratory bioassays males could discriminate between the geometric isomers. 

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