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. 1991 Apr;17(4):805-9.
doi: 10.1007/BF00994202.

Defensive secretion ofTenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

A B Attygalle  1 , C L Blankespoor, J Meinwald, T Eisner
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Defensive secretion ofTenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

A B Attygalle et al. J Chem Ecol. 1991 Apr.

Abstract

The defensive secretion ofTenebrio molitor contains a mixture of 2-methyl-1,4-benzoquinone andm-cresol. The phenol had not previously been detected in the secretion, although some investigators reported presence of 2-ethyl-1,4-benzoquinone as a second component. We failed to detect the latter quinone in secretion samples from three laboratory populations ofT. molitor.

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