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Arthropod Resistance Database Director


Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: anopheles pulcherrimus

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
diptera culicidae anopheles mosquito MED

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
G3689 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
Pakistan Rathor, H. R., Toqir, G. and Reisen, W. K. (1980). Status of insecticide resistance in anopheline mosquitoes of Punjab Province, Pakistan.. Southeast Asian J. Trop. Med. Pub. Health, 11 332-40.
G3101 1976 Field Evolved Resistance
Syria WHO 1976. (1976).
G176 1959 Field Evolved Resistance
Saudi Arabia Peffly, R. L. (1959). Insecticide resistance in anophelines in eastern Saudi Arabia.. Bull. WHO, 20 757-76.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.