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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: bemisia tabaci

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
homoptera aleyrodidae sweetpotato whitefly AG cotton

Active Ingredient: permethrin

MOA: Sodium channel modulators, Pyrethroids, Pyrethrins, DDT
Group: PYR CAS #: 52645-53-1 Shaugnessy Code: 109701

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G5099 1989 Field Evolved Resistance
USA Moore, A., B.E. Tabashnik, and J.D. Stark. (1989). Leg Autotomy: A Novel Mechanism of Protection against Insecticide Poisoning in Diamondback Moth (Lepidoptera:Plutellidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 82(5) 1295-1298.
G4927 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
USA Horowitz, A.R., N.C. Toscano, R.R. Youngman, and G.P. Georghiou. (1988). Synergism of Insecticides with DEF in Sweetpotato Whitefly (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 81 110-114.
G4325 1985 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
Arizona
Immaraju, J. A. (1985). Insecticide resistance studies in the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci Gennadius in the Imperial Valley, California.. M. S. thesis, Univ. of Calif., Riverside, 103 pp..
G4326 1985 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
California
Prabhaker, N., Coudriet, D. L. and Meyerdirk, D. E. (1985). Insecticide resistance in the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisa tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae).. J. Econ. Entomol., 78 748-52.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.