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the most effective triterpene observed was Oleanonic acid which has shown 80% mortality

after 72 h at 0.0625% concentration quite comparable to standard drug furadan.
Repellant/Insecticidal activity

Role of Lantana as insecticide and mosquito repellent is well known. Lantana camara is
traditionally burnt to act as a mosquito-repellant plant on Rusinga Island, and in Rambira,

western Kenya. In an experimental hut within a screenwalled greenhouse, Lantana has shown
repellent activity against malaria vector Anopheles gambiae (Seyoum et al., 2002). Flower

extract of Lantana in coconut oil has exhibited 94.5% protection from Aedes albopictus and

Aedes aegypti in human volunteers (Dua et al., 1996). Kumar and Maneemegalai (2008) have
demonstrated larvicidal potential of methanol and ethanol extract of leaves and flowers of

Lantana against three and four instar larvae of mosquito species A. aegypti and Culex

quinquefasciatus. Kumar et al., (2012) have demonstrated significant larvicidal activity (LC50
of 30.71 ppm) of hexane extract of Lantana leaves against fourth instar larva of A.aegypti, an

Indian strain of Dengue fever mosquito collected from Delhi and surrounding areas.
Essential oil from the leaves of Lantana has shown to possess adulticidal activity against

different mosquito species namely A. aegypti, C. quinquefasciatus, Anopheles culicifacies,
Anopheles fluvialitis and Anopheles stephensi (Dua et al., 2010). Essential oil from leaves has

also shown larvicidal activity against fourth larval instars of Culex pipiens (Zoubiri and

Baaliouamer, 2011). Essential oil isolated from leaves of Lantana has demonstrated strong
repellant and fumigant activity against adults of storage pest Pulse Beetle Callosobruchus

maculatus Fabricus (Zandi-Sohani et al., 2012). Yuan and Hu (2012) demonstrated repellent,
toxic and antifeedant potential of chloroform extract of Lantana leaves against a subterranean

termite Reticulitermes flavipens. Methanolic crude extract and hexane fraction of leaves of
Lantana have shown repellent activitiy against female A. aegypti in combination with extract

of Ocimum gratissimum leaves (Keziah et al., 2015). Hexane extract of Lantana stem has also

demonstrated appreciable larvicidal activity against early fourth instar larva of A. aegypti, a
vector of Dengue fever (Sharma et al., 2016). Recently, Hari and Mathew (2018) have

demonstrated larvicidal potential of petroleum ether extract of leaves of Lantana against C.

quinquefasciatus (LC50 10.63 mg/L) and A. aegypti (LC50 74.93 mg/L) larvae.
Other uses

In India, local communities are utilizing Lantana bushes for making sturdy furniture, toys,
bee-keeping boxes, fish-catchers, hangers, domestic articles etc. which might be due to non-

availability of native plant species by over-exploitation or their displacement by Lantana
(Kannan et al., 2008).

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