Description
A cuticular hydrocarbon and insect sex hormone; found in the cuticle of female F. canicularis flies and is an attractant to males in a trap assay; a contact sex hormone in scarab beetles and locust borers that is more abundant in females than males; elicits arrestment, alignment, and mounting by males of both species in mating assays, but only elicits copulation by the locust borer; produced by the orchid O. exaltata and by C. cunicularius, a pollinator of O. exaltata
Formal name: 9Z-pentacosene
Synonyms: Z9:C25
Molecular weight: 350.7
CAS: 51865-00-0
Purity: ≥95%
Formulation: A solution in hexane