Table 1.

Chemical analysis of mosquito attractive plant compounds: source, plant part, methods of volatile collection and analysis and the identified compounds.

Source	Targeted mosquito species	Plant part	Volatile collection method	Method of analysis	Compounds identified	References
Synthetic standards	Ae. aegypti	–	–	Single sensilla recording	Terpeniol, geraniol, eugenol, citral, citronellol and fatty acids	Lacher (1967)
Synthetic standards	Ae. aegypti	–	–	Single sensilla recording	Geraniol, eugenol, amyl acetate, toluene	Davis (1977)
A. millefolium	An. arabiensis	Flowers	Dynamic headspace air entrainment, activated charcoal, pentane	GC-MS	Cyclic and bicyclic monoterpene	Healy and Jepson (1988)
Synthetic standards	Cx. pipiens	–	–	Single sensilla recording	Thujone, verbenone, α-pinene, citral, nerol, limonene, and farnesol, hexanal, 1-hexenol, and (Z)-3-hexen-1-ol, ethyl propanoate, methyl propanoate, ethyl butyrate and ethyl acetate	Bowen (1992b)
S. otites	Cx. pipiens molestus and Ae. aegypti	Flowers	Dynamic headspace, Tenax-TA and Carbotrap tube, acetone	GC-EAD and GC-MS	Phenylethyl alcohol, phenylacetaldehyde, lilac aldehydes, (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate, linalool oxide, linalool, benzaldehyde, lilac alcohol, acetophenone, methyl salicylate and hexanal, 1-hexenol, Z-3-Hexen-1-ol	Jhumur et al. (2007, 2008)
A. syriaca	Cx. pipiens	Flowers	Solvent extraction in pentane and static headspace, DVB/CAR/PDMS SPME fibre	GC-MS	Phenylacetaldehyde, benzaldehyde and (E)-2-nonenal	Otienoburu et al. (2012)
P. hysterophorus, R. communis, B. pilosa	An. gambiae	Intact plant	Dynamic headspace, Super-Q, dichloromethane	GC-EAD and GC-MS	Hexanal, limonene, (Z)-and (E)-linalool oxide, β-pinene, (Z)-and (E)-β-ocimene, and (E)-β-farnesene	Nyasembe et al. (2012)

GC-EAD = gas chromatography-electroantennography, DVB/CAR/PDMS = divinylbenzene/carboxen/polydimethylsiloxane, SPME = solid phase micro-extraction.