Skip to main content


APRD Survey

Dear Users:

We value your contribution to and use of the Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database (APRD).

The APRD Team is conducting a Survey to gauge users experiences, our objective is to determine how the database enhances research, and to allow for users to provide feedback, suggestions and requests for potential improvements. Please take the anonymous survey using this link: Link to Survey

Thank you for your Participation,
David Mota-Sanchez
Arthropod Resistance Database Director


Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: blattella germanica

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
blattodea blattellidae german cockroach MED

Active Ingredient: allethrin

MOA: Sodium channel modulators, Pyrethroids, Pyrethrins, DDT
Group: PYR CAS #: 584792 Shaugnessy Code: 4001

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G4935 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
Japan Umeda, K. T. Yano, and M. Hirano. (1988). Pyrethroid Resistance Mechanism in German Cockroach, Blatella germanica (Orthoptera:Blattellidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 23(4) 373-380.
G5033 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
Kentucky
Cochran, D.G. (1988). Unpubl. Data.
G5034 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
North Carolina
Cochran 1988b. (1988).
G5035 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
Virginia
Cochran, D.G. (1988). Unpubl. Data.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.