“…5) were confirmed by the co-injection of authentic standards on two other GC-columns (RTX-wax and HP-1). With the exception of compounds B and G, the male-specific compounds extracted from S. subsignatus have been found to be aggregation pheromone components in several other species in the family Curculionidae, such Pseudopiazurus obesus (Zarbin et al, 2007b(Zarbin et al, , 2010, Anthonomus eugenii (Eller et al, 1994), A. grandis (Tumlinson et al, 1969), A. rubi (Innocenzi et al, 2001), Curculio caryae (Hedin et al, 1997), Bothynoderes punctiventris (Tóth et al, 2007), and Pissodes spp. (Booth et al, 1983;Philips et al, 1984).…”