Insecticide resistance has caused difficulties in controlling Aedes aegypti, stimulating the search for natural larvicide compounds. Crotalaria pallida, popularly known as Chique-Chique and for its repellent action, still lacks scientific data regarding its properties. The objective was to verify the larvicidal/ovocidal potential of this plant in A. aegypti. C. pallida leaves were subjected to extraction with solvents: Ethyl Acetate (AcEt), Hexane (Hex) Ethanol (EtOH) and Methanol (MetOH). Larvicidal action was determined with 15 larvae (L2, Rockefeller strain) through contact with each extract (500, 250; 125; 62.5; 31.25 mg/L diluted in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) for 24 hours (triplicate tests)) with subsequent determination of the lethal dose (DL90 and DL50) .The LD50 was used to determine the larvicidal action in the different larval instars for the extracts with greater lethality. at 500 mg/L) for 10 minutes and subsequently transferred to clean water for hatching (Contact Test). Eggs were also hatched in water containing 500 mg/L of the extracts (Hatching test). All results were subjected to statistical analysis, a better larvicidal action was observed, with death of 100% and 88.8%, in the compounds MetOH and EtOH, respectively, at a concentration of 500 mg/L.
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