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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: culex quinquefasciatus

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

Active Ingredient: pirimiphos-methyl

MOA: Acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, Organophophates
Group: OP CAS #: 29232-93-7 Shaugnessy Code: 108102

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G5163 1990 Field Evolved Resistance
Cameroon Peiris, H.T.R., and J. Hemingway. (1990). Temephos resistance and the associated cross-resistance spectrum in a strain of culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) from Peliyagoda, Sri Lanka. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 80 49-55.
G4659 1986 Field Evolved Resistance
Bangladesh WHO 1986. (1986).
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.