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Diethylphenylacetamide: a new insect repellent against stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans
B D Parashar1, G P Gupta, N Sikder
1Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
This paper reports the results of a laboratory study showing effectiveness of a new insect repellent N,N-diethylphenylacetamide (DEPA) against stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, and compared to N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) and dimethyl-phthalate (DMP). DEPA gave maximum protection time of more than 6 h at 3% concentration followed by DEET and DMP.