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Table 1 Anopheles spp. laboratory strains by species, origin, date of establishment, insecticide resistance profile and known resistance

From: Benchmarking insecticide resistance intensity bioassays for Anopheles malaria vector species against resistance phenotypes of known epidemiological significance

Anopheles spp.

Laboratory strain

Origin and date of culture establishment

Resistance profile

Known resistance mechanisms

An. funestus

FUMOZ BASE & FUMOZ-Ra

Southern Mozambique (2000)

Pyrethroids; carbamates

Monooxygenase P450s; glutathione S-transferase (secondary); thickened cuticles (secondary) [13, 2327]

ZAMFb

Nchelenge, Zambia (2016)

Pyrethroids; carbamates

Monooxygenase; P450s [28]

An. arabiensis

SENN DDT

Sennar, Sudan (1980)

Pyrethroids; DDT; organophosphates

Monooxygenase; P450s; glutathione S-transferase; general esterases; L1014F kdr [46, 47]

MBN DDT

Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2002)

Pyrethroids; DDT

Monooxygenase; P450s [34, 47, 48]

KZNb

Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2016)

Pyrethroids; DDT

Monooxygenase; P450s [34, 47, 48]

An. gambiae

TONGS

Tongon mine, Cote d’Ivoire (2010)

Pyrethroids; DDT; organophosphates; carbamates

Unknown

  1. aFUMOZ-R was intensively selected for pyrethroid resistance from FUMOZ BASE
  2. bAll ZAMF and KZN samples used in the resistance intensity experiments were the F1 progeny of wild-caught females