Abstract:The common cutworm, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius), was a worldwide-distributed agricultural pest. Indoxacarb was an ideal candidate to substitute organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides. To evaluate the resistance risk of S.litura to indoxacarb, resistance selection was conducted in the laboratory, and cross-resistance of indoxacarb-resistant S.litura population was investigated. After selection with indoxacarb 6 times during 10 generations, a resistant population of S.litura was achieved with resistance ratio of 15.63 compared with unselected parent population, suggesting that S.litura had high potential to develop resistance to indoxacarb, as was confirmed by resistance risk assessment. Bioassay showed that the LC50 values of phoxim, betacypermethrin, fipronil were 1.53, 2.42 and 1.53 folds higher in resistant population than that in unselected parent population, respectively, while the LC50 values of chlorfennapyr and methomyl were 0.78 and 0.96 folds lower in resistant population than that in unselected parent population, suggesting that indoxacarb-resistant S.litura had little cross-resistance to these tested insecticides.