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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: cosmopolites sordidus

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
coleoptera curculionidae banana root borer, banana weevil AG banana

Active Ingredient: lindane

MOA: GABA-gated chloride channel antagonists, Cyclodiene organochlorines
Group: CYCLO CAS #: 58-89-9 Shaugnessy Code: 9001

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G2207 1974 Field Evolved Resistance
Australia--
New South Wales
Edge, V. E. (1974). Cyclodiene-BHC resistance in Cosmopolitis sordidus (Germ.) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in New South Wales, Australia.. Bull. Entomol. Res., 64 1-7.
G1964 1972 Field Evolved Resistance
Ecuador Sotomayer, B. (1972). Resistencia de Cosmopolites sordidus Germ a los compuestos organochlorados en el Ecuador.. Rev. Peru. Entomol., 15 169-75.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.