1. Objectives:

（1）         Understand the features and species of important classes in the Phylum Arthropod.

（2）         Master the harmfulness to human caused by arthropods and the manner by which arthropods transmit diseases.

（3）         Master the relation between mosquitoes and man and the morphological structures and habits  that relate to arthropod transmitting pathogens in adult and larvae.

（4）         Understand the morphology, life cycle, ecology and prevention of mosquito vectors.

2. Contents:

（1）         The features of Phylum Arthropod, Class Insecta , Class Arachnida, Class Myriapoda and Class Crustacea;  the harmfulness to human caused by arthropods and the manner by which arthropods transmit diseases; the development and metamorphism of medical arthropod.

（2）         The morphology of the egg, larva and adult developmental forms of mosquitoes; the life cycle and the main condition required during mosquitoes development; ecological aspects of mosquitoes; the main differentiated features of three mosquito genera (Anopheles, Culex and Aedes ); the diseases transmitted by mosquitoes; important and common species of mosquitoes in our country.