Observations on Megarhinus Splendens Wiedemann with Reference to its Value in Biological Control of Other Mosquitoes1 (Diptera: Culicidae)

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Abstract
Megarhinus splendens is a beneficial mosquito because its larvae eat other mosquito larvae. The adults do not bite man. Whether these facts justify the use of M. splendens by man to control mosquitoes is questionable, and it is this question which the writer tried to answer in his study of M. splendens in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands during 1944 and 1945.