Essential oils of Hyptis pectinata chemotypes: isolation, binary mixtures and acute toxicity on leaf-cutting ants
Leaf-cutting ants are pests of great economic importance due to the damage they cause to agricultural and forest crops. The use of organosynthetic insecticides is the main form of control of these insects. In order to develop safer technology, the objective of this work was to evaluate the formicida...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Sergipe (UFS) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional da UFS |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai:ri.ufs.br:repo_01:riufs/7242 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/7242 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Lamiaceae Pests Secondary metabolites Essential oils profile Major constituents Bio-insecticide Metabólitos secundários Óleos essenciais Bioinseticidas |
| Sumario: | Leaf-cutting ants are pests of great economic importance due to the damage they cause to agricultural and forest crops. The use of organosynthetic insecticides is the main form of control of these insects. In order to develop safer technology, the objective of this work was to evaluate the formicidal activity of the essential oils of two Hyptis pectinata genotypes (chemotypes) and their major compounds on the leaf-cutting ants Acromyrmex balzani Emery and Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel. Bioassays of exposure pathways (contact and fumigation) and binary mixtures of the major compounds were performed. The major compounds identified in the essential oils of H. pectinata were β-caryophyllene, caryophyllene oxide and calamusenone. The essential oils of H. pectinata were toxic to the ants in both exposure pathways. Essential oils were more toxic than their major compounds alone. The chemotype calamusenone was more toxic to A. balzani in both exposure pathways. A. sexdens rubropilosa was more susceptible to the essential oil of the chemotype β-caryophyllene in both exposure pathways. In general, the binary mixtures of the major compounds resulted in additive effect of toxicity. The essential oils of H. pectinata is a raw material of great potential for the development of new insecticides. |
|---|