2.1. Mosquito strains
The Ae. albopictus strains “Lab”, a reference susceptible strain
originating from Malaysia, kindly provided by Dr Charles Wondjii
(Liverpool School Tropical Medicine, UK) and “Tem-GR”, a temephos
resistant strain originated from Greece (Grigoraki et al., 2015),
as well as the Ae. aegypti strains “Platthalung” (Poupardin et al.,
2014), a susceptible strain originating from Thailand and the
“Nakhon Sawan” (Poupardin et al., 2014), a temephos resistant
strain originated from Thailand, were used in this study.