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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Psyche Volume 2012, Article ID 280340, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/280340 Research Article Attractant Pheromone of the Neotropical Species Neomegalotomus parvus (Westwood) (Heteroptera: Alydidae) Raul Alberto Laumann,1 Miguel Borges,1 Jeffrey R. Aldrich,2 Ashot Khrimian,2 and Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes1 1 Embrapa Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Avenida W5 Norte (Final), CEP 70770-900 Brasılia, DF, Brazil ´ ´ 2 USDA-ARS and Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory, Agricultural Research Center-West, Building 007, Room 313, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Maria Carolina Blassioli-Moraes, mcbmorae@cenargen.embrapa.br Received 30 September 2011; Accepted 23 February 2012 ˆ Academic Editor: Antonio R. Panizzi Copyright © 2012 Raul Alberto Laumann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Neotropical broad-headed bug, Neomegalotomus parvus (Westwood), is adapted to various leguminous crops and is consid- ered a pest in common bean and soybean. The chemical communication of this species was studied in order to identify an attractant pheromone. Males and females of N. parvus produce several short-chain esters and acids, and their antennae showed elec- trophysiological responses to five of these compounds, three common to both sexes (hexyl butanoate, 4-methylhexyl butanoate, and hexyl hexanoate), and two female-specific compounds (4-methylhexyl pentanoa