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THE presence of sex pheromones in insects has been well documented1. Travis2 and Jeannel3 reported a natural sex lure in the scarab beetles Lachnosterna lanceolata Say and Pachypus cornutus Olivier respectively, and our investigations with Rhopaea spp. provide another such record for the Scarabaeidae.
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Hoo, C., ROBERTS, R. Sex Attraction in Rhopaea (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae). Nature 205, 724–725 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205724a0
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