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tribolium castaneum

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Order Family Common Name(s) Group Host
coleoptera tenebrionidae red flour beetle AG stored grain, peanuts, sorghum

Shown Resistance to Active Ingredient(s)

  1. BHC/cyclodienes - Unspecified In Literature
  2. bioresmethrin
  3. Carbamates - Unspecified in Literature
  4. carbaryl (#2)
  5. chlorpyrifos
  6. chlorpyrifos-methyl
  7. cyanophos
  8. cyfluthrin (#2)
  9. cyhalothrin
  10. cypermethrin (#2)
  11. DDT (#4)
  12. deltamethrin (#2)
  13. diazinon
  14. dichlorvos (#3)
  15. ethylene dibromide
  16. fenitrothion
  17. lindane (#12)
  18. malathion (#39)
  19. methyl bromide (#7)
  20. Organophosphates - Unspecified In Literature
  21. permethrin
  22. phenothrin
  23. phosphine (#41)
  24. phoxim
  25. pirimiphos-methyl (#2)
  26. promecarb
  27. propoxur
  28. pyrethrins (#2)
  29. spinosad (#2)
  30. synergized pyrethrins
  31. temephos
  32. tetrachlorvinphos Z-isomer

Citation(s) of Resistance

# Citation
1 Zettler, J.L., and G.W. Cuperus. (1990). Pesticide Resistance in Tribolium castaneum (coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) in Wheat. Journal of Economic Entomology, 83(5) 1677-1681.
2 Subramanyam, B.H., P.K. Harein, and L.K. Cutkomp. (1989). Organophosphate Resistance in Adults of Red flour beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and Sawtoothed Grain Beetle (Coleptera: Cucujidae) Infesting Barley Stored on Farms in Minnesota. Journal of Economic Entomology, 82(4) 989-995.
3 Zettler, J.L., and F.H. Arthur. (1997). Dose-Response tests on Red Flour Beetle and Confused Flour Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Collected from Flour Mills in the United States. Journal of Economic Entomology, 90(5) 1157-1162.
4 Bengston M., P.J.Collins, G.J. Daglish, V.L. Hallman, R. Kopittke, and H. Pavic. (1999). Inheritance of Phosphine Resistance in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 92(1) 17-20.
5 Zettler J.L., W.R. Halliday, and F.H. Arthur. (1989). Phosphine Resistance in Insects Infesting Stored Peanuts in South Eastern United States. Journal of Economic Entomology, 82(6) 1508-1511.
6 Halliday, W.R., F.H. Arthur, and J.L. Zettler. (1988). Resistance Status of Red Flour Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Infesting Stored Peanuts in teh Southeastern United States. Journal of Economic Entomology, 81 74-77.
7 Collins, J.P. (1989). A New Resistance to Pyrethroids I Tribolium casteneum (Herbst). Pesticide Science, 28 101-115.
8 Greening, H. G. (1970). Malathion resistance in the rust-red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in New South Wales.. J. Aust. Entomol. Soc., 9 160-62.
9 Haliscak, J. P. and Beeman, R. W. (1983). Status of malathion resistance in five genera of beetles infesting farm-stored corn, wheat, and oats in the United States.. J. Econ. Entomol., 76 717-22.
10 Halliday, W. R., Arthur, F. H. and Zettler, J. L. (1988). Resistance status of red flour beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) infesting stored peanuts in the southeastern United States.. J. Econ. Entomol., 81 74-77.
11 Attia, F. I., and Greening, H. G. (1981). Survey of resistance to phosphine in coleopoterous pests of grain and stored products in New South Wales, Australia.. Gen. Appl. Entomol., 13 93-97.
12 Bansode, P. C. and Campbell, W. V. (1979). Evaluation of North Carolina field strain of the red flour beetle for resistance to malathion and other organophosphorus compounds.. J. Econ. Entomol., 72 331-33.
13 Bhatia & Pradhan 1968. (1968).
14 Bhatia, S. K., Yadav, T. D. and Mookherjee, P. B. (1971). Malathion resistance in Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), in India.. J. Stored Prod. Res., 7 227-230.
15 Bond, E. J. (1973). Increased tolerance to ethylene dibromide in field population of Tribolium castaneum (Herbst).. J. Stored Prod. Res., 9 61-63.
16 Brun, L. O. and Attia, F. I. (1983). Resistance to lindane, malathion, and fenitrothion on coleopterous pests of stored products in New Caledonia.. Proc. Hawaiian Entomol. Sco., 24 211-15.
17 Champ, B. R. and Campbell-Brown, M. J. (1970). Insecticide resistance in Australian Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).. II. Malathion resistance in eastern Australia. J. Stored Prod. Res., 6 111-31.
18 Champ, B. R. and Dyte, C. E. (1976). FAO Global Survey of Pesticide Susceptibility of Stored Grain Pests, FAO Plant Production Prot.. Ser. No. 5.
19 Champ 1979. (1979).
20 Dyte, C. E. and Blackman, D. G. (1970). The spread of insecticide resistance in Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae).. J. Stored Prod. Res., 6 255-61.
21 Dyte, C.E. (1965). In: FAO 1967.
22 Evans, N. J. (1985). The effectiveness of various insecticides on some resistant beetle pests of stored produces form Uganda.. J. Stored Prod. Res., 21 105-09.
23 (1970). Recommended methods for the detection and measurement of resistance of agricultural pests to pesticides. Tentative method for adults of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst.).. FAO 1970. FAO Method No. 6. FAO Plant Prot. Bull., 18 107.
24 Horton, P. M. (1984). Evaluation of South Carolina filed strains of certain stored-product coleoptera for malathion resistance and pirimiphos-methyl susceptibility.. J. Agric. Entomol., 1 1-5.
25 Iordanou, N. T. and Watters, F. L. (1969). Temperature effects on the toxicity of five insecticides against five species of stored product insects.. J. Econ. Entomol., 62 130-35.
26 Parkin, E. A. and Foster, R. (1962). Increased resistance of stored product insects to insecticides: The rust-red flour beetle malathion.. Pest Infest. Res., 1962 84.
27 Speirs, R.D. (1965). In: FAO 1967.
28 Speirs, R. D., Redlinger, L. M. and Jones, R. (1971). DDT resistant red flour beetles from a Georgia peanut shller.. J. Econ. Entomol., 64 1228-29.
29 Speirs, R. D., Redlinger, L. M. and Bollos, H. P. (1967). Malathion resistance in the red flour beetle.. J. Econ. Entomol., 60 1373-74.
30 White, N. D. G. and Watters, F. L. (1984). Incidence of malathion resistance in Tribolium castaneum and Cryptolestes ferrugineus populations collected in Canada.. Proc. Third Intern. Working Conf. Stored Prod. Entomol., Manhattan, Kansas, 1983, pp..
31 White 1984. (1984).
32 Zyngas 1974. (1974).
33 Eldefrawi 1968. (1968).
34 Wool, D., Noiman, S., Manheim, O., Cohen, E. (1982). Malathion Resistance in Tribolium Strains and Their Hybrids: Inheritance Patterns and Possible Enzymatic Mechanisms (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Biochemical Genetics, 20 621-636.
35 Haubruge, E., Amichot, M., Cauny, A., Berge, J.E., Arnaud, L. (2002). Purification and characterisation of a carboxylesterase involved in malathion-specific resistance from Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 32 1181-1190.
36 Jagadeesan, R., Collins, P., Daglish, G., Ebert, P., Schlipalius, D. (2010). Phosphine Resistance in the Rust Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium Castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Inheritance, Gene Interactions and Fitness Costs. PLoS ONE, 7 e31582.
37 Pimentel, M., Faroni, L., Totola, M., and Guedes, R. (2007). Phosphine resistance, respiration rate and fitness consequences in stored-product insects. Pest Management Science, 63 876-881.
38 Zettler, J. L., Halliday, W. R., and Arthur, F. H. (1989). Phosphine Resistance in Insects Infesting Stored Peanuts in the Southeastern United States. Journal of Economic Entomology, 82(6) 1508-1511.
39 Awan, D., Saleem, M., Nadeem, M., and Shakoori, A. R. (2012). Toxicological and Biochemical Studies on Spinosad and Synergism with Piperonyl Butoxide in Susceptible and Resistant Strains of Tribolium castaneum. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 44 649-662.
40 Opit, G., Phillips, T., Aikins, M., and Hasan, M. (2012). Phosphine Resistance in Tribolium castaneum and Rhyzopertha dominica From Stored Wheat in Oklahoma. Journal of Economic Entomology, 105 1107-1114.
41 Jagadeesan, R., Nayak, M. K., Pavic, H., Chandra, K., and Collins, P. (2014). Susceptibility to sulfuryl fluoride and lack of cross-resistance to phosphine in developmental stages of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Pest Management Science.
42 Gautam, S. G., Opit, G. P., and Hosoda, E. (2016). Phosphine Resistance in Adult and Immature Life Stages of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and Plodia interpunctella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Populations in California. Insecticide Resistance and Resistance Management, 109(6) 2525-2533.
43 Attia, M. A., Wahba, T. F., Shaarawy, N., Moustafa, F. I., Guedes, R. N. C., and Dewer, Y. (2020). Stored grain pest prevalence and insecticide resistance in Egyptian populations of the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and the rice weevil Sitophilus oryzae (L.). Journal of Stored Products Research , 87 101611.
44 Ramya, R. S., Srivastava, C., Subramanian, S., & Ranjith, M. (2023). Inheritance pattern and expression of resistance to phosphine in larval stage of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 102040.
45 Khalid, Iqra & Kamran, Muhammad & Abubakar, Muhammad & Khizar, Mishal & Shad, Sarfraz. (2023). Effect of autosomally inherited, incompletely dominant, and unstable spinosad resistance on physiology of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): Realized heritability and cross-resistance.. Journal of Stored Products Research.
46 Ramya, R. S., Srivastava, C., Subramanian, S., & Ranjith, M. (2023). Inheritance pattern and expression of resistance to phosphine in larval stage of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 26.

Location(s) Where Resistance is Reported

# Location
1 7 -- Australia -- 4
2 11 -- Bahrain -- 4
3 25 -- Canada -- 4
4 26 -- Central African Republic -- 4
5 29 -- China -- 4
6 35 -- Cyprus -- 4
7 45 -- Egypt -- 4
8 49 -- Ethiopia -- 4
9 56 -- Gambia -- 4
10 60 -- Greece -- 4
11 65 -- Guyana -- 4
12 70 -- India -- 4
13 79 -- Japan -- 4
14 81 -- Kenya -- 4
15 89 -- Malawi -- 4
16 90 -- Malaysia -- 4
17 98 -- Nepal -- 4
18 101 -- New Caledonia -- 4
19 106 -- Nigeria -- 4
20 122 -- Senegal -- 4
21 123 -- Seychelles -- 4
22 127 -- Somalia -- 4
23 128 -- South Africa -- 4
24 139 -- Syria -- 4
25 151 -- Uganda -- 4
26 154 -- United Kingdom -- 4
27 157 -- USA -- 4
28 167 -- Zambia -- 4
29 170 -- USA -- Minnesota -- 4
30 171 -- USA -- Georgia -- Ashburn -- 4
31 178 -- USA -- Missouri -- 4
32 179 -- USA -- Florida -- 4
33 184 -- Canada -- Quebec -- 4
34 185 -- Canada -- Ontario -- 4
35 187 -- Canada -- Alberta -- 4
36 195 -- USA -- North Carolina -- 4
37 196 -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- 4
38 197 -- Australia -- Western Australia -- 4
39 198 -- Australia -- Queensland -- 4
40 199 -- Australia -- New South Wales -- 4
41 200 -- Australia -- Victoria -- 4
42 201 -- USA -- Alabama -- 4
43 202 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- 4
44 203 -- USA -- South Carolina -- 4
45 206 -- USA -- Washington -- Clarkston -- 4
46 211 -- Canada -- British Columbia -- 4
47 218 -- Australia -- South Australia -- 4
48 232 -- USA -- Kansas -- 4
49 233 -- Canada -- Manitoba -- 4
50 234 -- West Indies -- Montserrat -- 4
51 1015 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Garfield -- 4
52 3438 -- England -- Berkshire -- Slough -- 4
53 3439 -- Philippines -- 4
54 4609 -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- 4
55 5426 -- Australia -- 4
56 5613 -- Brazil -- Goias -- Rio Verde -- 4
57 5614 -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Vicosa -- 4
58 5615 -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Uberlandia -- 4
59 5617 -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Unai -- 4
60 5618 -- Brazil -- Mato Grosso -- Campos de Julio -- 4
61 5619 -- Brazil -- Minas Gerais -- Bom Despacho -- 4
62 6253 -- USA -- Alabama -- Dothan -- 4
63 6484 -- Pakistan -- 4
64 6650 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Payne County -- 4
65 6651 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Payne County -- 4
66 6652 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Payne County -- 4
67 6653 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Payne County -- 4
68 6654 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Garfield County -- 4
69 6655 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Kingfisher County -- 4
70 6657 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Texas County -- 4
71 6658 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Logan County -- 4
72 6664 -- USA -- Oklahoma -- Garfield County -- 4
73 9187 -- Australia -- Queensland -- Natcha -- 4
74 9188 -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Moree -- 4
75 9189 -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Bellata -- 4
76 12101 -- USA -- California -- 4
77 12102 -- USA -- California -- 4
78 13009 -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- 4
79 13011 -- Egypt -- Alexandria -- 4
80 14466 -- India -- Rajasthan -- Ajmer -- 4
81 14651 -- Pakistan -- Punjab -- Multan -- 4
82 14700 -- India -- Rajasthan -- Ajmer -- 4

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