Behavioral responses of Diaphorina citri to host plant volatiles in multiple-choice olfactometers are affected in interpretable ways by effects of background colors and airflows.

In several phytophagous hemipterans, behavior appears to be mediated by both visual and chemical cues. For the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae), olfactometric assays are generally difficult to interpret owing to the low proportion of individuals responding to odors (...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haroldo Xavier Linhares Volpe, Odimar Zanuzo Zanardi, Rodrigo Facchini Magnani, Rejane Angélica Grigio Luvizotto, Victoria Esperança, Renato de Freitas, Jennifer Yslaine Delfino, Tatiana Aparecida Mulinari, Rômulo Igor de Carvalho, Nelson Arno Wulff, Marcelo Pedreira de Miranda, Leandro Peña
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235630