During scotophase, females of Mocis latipes (Guenée) landed on vertical surfaces and started calling behavior, raising slowly the wings, lifting the tip of abdomen and everting the ovipositor. Females started calling at the 2nd day after emergence, and the maximum number of calling was observed in the 4th day. The beginning of calling started at the 2nd hour in the scotophase with a peak in the 3rd hour. The rates of 70:30 and 60:40 of (Z,Z,Z)-3,6,9-heneicosatrien and (Z,Z)-6,9-heneicosadien, respectively, were the blends most attractive to males of M. latipes, in wind tunnel. Males began to respond 24 hours after emergence in the 3rd hour of scotophase. Courtship behavior is described and a comparative analysis of reproductive behavior between M. latipes and Anticarsia gemmatalis (Hübner) is presented.
Insecta; Anticarsia gemmatalis; Catocalinae; monitoring; semiochemicals; reproductive isolation
