A family of the order DIPTERA that comprises the mosquitoes. The larval stages are aquatic, and the adults can be recognized by the characteristic WINGS, ANIMAL venation, the scales along the wing veins, and the long proboscis. Many species are of particular medical importance.
    

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A wounded British soldier being visited in an Egyptian hospital by a monk, a sister of mercy and a chaplain. Wood engraving after F. Villiers.

How AIDS can and cannot be transmitted; an advertisement by AIDS-Hilfe Salzburg. Colour lithograph.

Cétonia pencils for use against mosquito bites: advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1912.

Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.

A giant mosquito trying to attack a French soldier who is protected by a mosquito net. Colour lithograph after H. Stephany, 1917.

The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.

Malaria : its investigation and control with special references to Indian conditions / by Robert Knowles and Ronald Senior-White.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

The world united against malaria : 35M : Palestine : UAR.

The identification of the blood meal of mosquitoes by means of the precipitin test / by Carroll G. Bull and W.V. King.

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The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.

Malaria : its investigation and control with special references to Indian conditions / by Robert Knowles and Ronald Senior-White.

Beauperthuy et la découverte de la transmission de la fièvre jaune par les moustiques / par Rosario Beauperthuy de Benedetti.

The world united against malaria : 35M : Palestine : UAR.

The identification of the blood meal of mosquitoes by means of the precipitin test / by Carroll G. Bull and W.V. King.