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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: culex tritaeniorhynchus

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

Active Ingredient: malathion

MOA: Acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, Organophophates
Group: OP CAS #: 121755 Shaugnessy Code: 57701

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G6426 2000 Unspecified
Sri Lanka Karunaratne, S.H.P.P., and J. Hemingway. (2000). Insecticide resistance spectra and resistance mechanims in populations of Japanese encephalitis vector mosquitoes, Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Cx. gelidus, in Sri Lanka. Medical and Veterinarial Entomology, 14 430-436.
G4689 1986 Field Evolved Resistance
Japan Yasutomi, K., Urabe, K. and Wada Y. (1986). Insecticide resistance of Anopheles sininsis and Culex tritaeniorhynchus in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.. Jpn. J. Sanit. Zool., 37 357-362.
G4690 1986 Field Evolved Resistance
Sri Lanka WHO 1986. (1986).
G3810 1980 Field Evolved Resistance
South Korea WHO 1980. (1980).
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.