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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: lucilia cuprina

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
diptera calliphoridae australian sheep blowfly MED cattle, sheep

Active Ingredient: diflubenzuron

MOA: Inhibitors of chitin biosynthesis, type 0, Lepidopteran, Benzoylureas
Group: BPU CAS #: 35367385 Shaugnessy Code: 108201

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G7257 2004 Unspecified
Australia Levot, G., and N. Sales. (2004). Insect growth regulator cross-resistance studies in field- and laboratory selected strains of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedmann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 43 374-377.
G10564 2001
Lab selected after field-evolved resistance**

Australia Kotze, A.C., Sales, N. (2001). Inheritance of Diblufenzuron Resistance and Monooxygenase Activities in a Laboratory-Selected Strain of Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Caliphoridae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 94 1243-1248.
G5863 1997 Unspecified
Australia Kotze, A.C., N. Sales, and I.M. Barchia. (1997). Diflubenzuron tolerance associated with monooxygenase activity in field strain larvae of the austrailian sheep blowfly (Diptera: calliphorida). Journal of Economic Entomology, 90(1) 15-20.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.