Medical Entomology Project.

The Medical Entomology Project MEP, a cooperative venture between the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, conducts biosystematic research on arthropods of medical importance to the Army. MEP fulfills this requirement by performing biosystematic studies on important groups of vectors such as anopheline vectors of malaria and culicine vectors of arbovirus diseases, providing information on potential vectors for the guidance of military field, research teams and other governmental agencies and preparing monographs and technical papers which summarize data on the ecology, taxonomy and medical importance of arthropod vectors in various regions of the world. In addition, MEP performs curation and research on the national collection of mosquitoes at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The report review progress in 1 Biosystematic studies on Culicidae genera -- Anopheles, Culex, Aedes and Uranotaenia and 2 Field studies in the Neotropical region -- Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, Publications of the Medical Entomology Project are listed.