Volatile Terpenes and Terpenoids from Workers and Queens of Monomorium chinense (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

• Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 23; no. 11; p. 2838
• Main Authors: Zhao, Rui, Lu, Lihua, Shi, Qingxing, Chen, Jian, He, Yurong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.11.2018; MDPI
• Subjects: Abdomen; Biosynthesis; Dufour's gland; Exocrine glands; Formicidae; glandular source; Headspace; headspace solid phase microextraction; Hymenoptera; Insects; Laboratories; Mandibular gland; Mass spectrometry; Mass spectroscopy; Monomorium chinense; Pheromones; Queens; Solid phase methods; Solid phases; terpenes; terpenoids; Workers (insect caste); Monomorium chinense; glandular source; terpenoids; headspace solid phase microextraction; terpenes
• ISSN: 1420-3049; 1420-3049
• DOI: 10.3390/molecules23112838

Twenty-one volatile terpenes and terpenoids were found in Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a native Chinese ant, by using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas-phase chromatography and mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which makes this ant one of the most prolific terpene producers in insect. A sesquiterpene with unknown structure (terpene 1) was the main terpene in workers and neocembrene in queens. Terpenes and terpenoids were detected in poison, Dufour's and mandibular glands of both workers and queens. Worker ants raised on a terpene-free diet showed the same terpene profile as ants collected in the field, indicating that terpene and terpenoid synthesis occurs in . .