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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: culex pipiens pipiens

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
diptera culicidae house mosquito MED House Mosquito

Active Ingredient: BHC/cyclodienes - Unspecified In Literature

MOA: GABA-gated chloride channel antagonists, Cyclodiene organochlorines
Group: CYCLO CAS #: 0 Shaugnessy Code: 0

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G4173 1984 Field Evolved Resistance
Kuwait WHO 1984. (1984).
G3767 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Iran WHO 1980. (1980).
G3768 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Lebanon Shidrawi, G.R. (1980). Impact of pesticide resistance on disease prevention and control in Eastern Mediterranean countries.. WHO unpublished document VBC/EC/80.15.
G3147 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
China WHO 1976. (1976).
G3148 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Czechoslovakia WHO 1976. (1976).
G3149 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Egypt WHO 1976. (1976).
G3150 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Greece WHO 1976. (1976).
G3151 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Tunisia WHO 1976. (1976).
G3152 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
USA WHO 1976. (1976).
G3153 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
USSR WHO 1976. (1976).
G1811 1971 Field Evolved Resistance
Israel Brown, A. W. A. (1971). Pest resistance to pesticides.. In: ""Pesticides in the Enviroment,"" ed. White-Stevens,, 1 457-552.
G1812 1971 Field Evolved Resistance
Italy Brown, A. W. A. (1971). Pest resistance to pesticides.. In: ""Pesticides in the Enviroment,"" ed. White-Stevens,, 1 457-552.
G1111 1966 Field Evolved Resistance
France WHO 1966a. (1966).
G1112 1966 Field Evolved Resistance
Morocco WHO 1966a. (1966).
G776 1965 Field Evolved Resistance
South Korea Hwang, C. H., Paik, K. H. and Kahn, C. M. (1965). A study of insecticide susceptibility--Lists of Culex mosquitoes and a note of biting activity of Culex tritaeniorhynchus Giles in Korea.. Korean Cent. J. Med., 9 161-66.
G297 1961 Field Evolved Resistance
Japan Yasutomi 1961. (1961).
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.