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Reported Resistance Case(s)

Species: blattella germanica

Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
blattodea blattellidae german cockroach MED

Active Ingredient: tetramethrin

MOA: Sodium channel modulators, Pyrethroids, Pyrethrins, DDT
Group: PYR CAS #: 7696-12-0 Shaugnessy Code: 69003

Resistance Case(s)

Case Id Year of Report Type of Resistance Location Reference
G4936 1988 Field Evolved Resistance
Japan Umeda, K. T. Yano, and M. Hirano. (1988). Pyrethroid Resistance Mechanism in German Cockroach, Blatella germanica (Orthoptera:Blattellidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 23(4) 373-380.
G4249 1984 Field Evolved Resistance
Czechoslovakia Ledvinka, J., Rupes, V. and Tomasek, L. (1984). Current resistance of Blattella germanica to insecticides in western Bohemia (Czecholovakia).. Acta Ent. Bohemoslov., 81 171-77.
G3554 1979 Field Evolved Resistance
USSR Smirnova, A. S., Levi, M. I., Niyazova, M. V., Kapanadze, E. I., Bromberg, A. I., Zagroba, V. I., Bodylina, A. A., Kuznetsova, R. M., Lautsin, A. M. and Kurkina, I. A. (1979). Resistance of some common cockroach Blattella germanica subpopulations to neopynamin and other insecticides.. Med. Parazitol Parazit. Bolezni., 48 60-66.
*The population was created solely by selection and/or genetic manipulation.
**The population was selected further in the laboratory after collection.