Table 1.
Chemical compounds of pheromones tested for their attractive and repulsive effect on mites
| Species | Tested substances | Experiments | Effect | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acarus immobilis (Griffith 1964) | 2-Hydroxy-6-methylbenzaldehyde | Filter paper bioassays Petri dishes experiments |
Attraction | Sato et al. (1993) |
| Aleuroglyphus ovatus (Troupeau 1879) | 2-Hydroxy-6-methylbenzaldehyde | Filter paper bioassays Petri dishes experiments |
Attraction | Kuwahara et al. (1991) |
| Caloglyphus sp. | (2R,3R)-Epoxyneral | Petri dishes experiments | Attraction | Mori et al. (1996); Mori et al. (1998) |
| Rosefuran | ||||
| Caloglyphus polyphyllae (Zakhvatkin 1941) | β-Acaridial | Petri dishes experiments | Attraction | Shimizu et al. (2001) |
| Carpoglyphus lactis (Linneaeus 1767) | Lardolure | Not described | Attraction | Kuwahara et al. (1994) |
| Cosmoglyphus hughesis (Samsinak 1966) | 2-Hydroxy-6-methylbenzaldehyde | Filter paper bioassays Petri dishes experiments |
Attraction | Ryono et al. (2001) |
| Dermanyssus gallinae (De Geer 1778) | Aggregation pheromone | Petri dishes experiments Y-tube olfactometers 4 arms-olfactometers |
Attraction | Entrekin and Oliver (1982); Birkett et al. (2010); Koenraadt and Dicke (2010) |
| Butyric acid Decanoic acid | ||||
| Heptanoic acid Hexanoic acid Nonanoic acid | ||||
| Octanoic acid Pentanoic acid | ||||
| Dermatophagoides farinae (Hughes 1961) | 2-Hydroxy-6-methylbenzaldehyde | Filter paper bioassays Petri dishes experiments Y-tube olfactometers |
Attraction | Tatami et al. (2001); Skelton et al. (2010) |
| Neryl formate | ||||
| Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Trouessart 1897) | (6Z,9Z)-6,9-heptadecadiene | Long-range olfactometers Y-tube olfactometers |
No effect | Skelton et al. (2010); Steidle et al. (2014) |
| Neral | ||||
| Neryl formate | ||||
| Neryl propionate | Attraction | |||
| Pentadecane | ||||
| (Z)-8-heptadecene | ||||
| Lardoglyphus konoi (Sasa and Asanuma 1951) | Lardolure | Not described | Attraction | Kuwahara et al. (1994) |
| Rhizoglyphus robini (Claparède 1869) | α-Acaridial | Petri dishes experiments | Attraction | Mizoguchi et al. (2003) |
| Rhizoglyphus setosus (Manson 1972) | S-Isorobinal | Petri dishes experiments | Attraction | Mizoguchi et al. (2005) |
| Schwiebea elongata (Banks 1906) | Neral (low dose) | Pasteur pipet experiments | Attraction | Nishimura et al. (2003) |
| Neral (high dose) | Repulsion | |||
| Tetranychus urticae (Koch 1836) | Citronellol Farnesol Nerolidol |
Petri dishes experiments | Attraction | Regev and Cone (1975), (1976), (1980) |