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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: culex tarsalis

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

Active Ingredient: fenitrothion

MOA: Acetylcholine esterase inhibitors, Organophophates
Group: OP CAS #: 122145 Shaugnessy Code: 105901

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G2396 1974 Field Evolved Resistance
USA--
California
Apperson, C. S. and Georghious, G. P. (1974). Comparative resistance to insecticides in populations of three sympatric species of mosquitoes in the Coachella Valley of California.. J. Med. Entomol., 11 573-76.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.