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Table 1 Mosquito species and strains selected for the WHO multi-centre laboratory study

From: A new WHO bottle bioassay method to assess the susceptibility of mosquito vectors to public health insecticides: results from a WHO-coordinated multi-centre study

Species

Strains

Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)

Bora Bora, New Orleans, Rockefeller

Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1895)

Chengdu, EHI, NEA, Perols, VCRU

Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto (Giles, 1902)

Kisumu

Anopheles funestus sensu stricto (Giles, 1900)

Fang

Anopheles stephensi (Liston, 1901)

NDD, Puducherry

Anopheles minimus sensu stricto (Theobald, 1901)

TM

Anopheles albimanus (Wiedemann, 1820)

Sanarate, Buenaventura