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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: bemisia tabaci

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
homoptera aleyrodidae sweetpotato whitefly AG cotton

Active Ingredient: dinotefuran

MOA: Nicotinic Acetylcholine receptor agonists / antagonists, Neonicotinoids
Group: NICO CAS #: 0 Shaugnessy Code: 0

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G21717 2023 Field Evolved Resistance
China Li, K., Liu, J., Geng, Z., Xu, W., Zhang, Z., Chu, D. and Guo, L. (2023). Resistance to dinotefuran in Bemisia tabaci in China: status and characteristics.. Pest Management Science, 79 833-844.
G21609 2022
Lab selected*

Field Evolved Resistance
India--
West Bengal
Roy, D., Biswas, S., Biswas, A., Chakraborty, G., and Sarkar, P. K. (2022). Can insecticide mixtures be considered to surmount neonicotinoid resistance in Bemisia tabaci?. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 25(2) 101901.
G15821 2013 Field Evolved Resistance
Spain Longhurst, C., Babcock, J., Denholm, I., Gorman, K., Thomas, J., and Sparks, T. (2013). Cross-resistance relationships of the sulfoximine insecticide sulfoxaflor with neonicotinoids and other insecticides in the whiteflies Bemisia tabaci and Trialeurodes vaporariorum. Pest Management Science, 69 809-813.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.