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6th International Congress of DipterologyFurthermore, other acetone extracts of 19 natural medicines used inVietnam were tested for their larvicidal activities against mosquito andchironomid larvae. Larvicidal activities were clearly found in the acetoneextracts of 7 natural medicines, i.e. Chenopodium ambrosioides L.(Chenopodiaceae), Sophora flavescens Ait. (Leguminosae), Prunusarmeniaca L. (Rosaceae), Orthosiphon stamineus Benth. (Labiatae),Notopterygium incisum Ting (Umbelliferae), Erythrina indica Lam.(Leguminosae) and Oldenlandia corymbosa L. (Rubiaceae) againstmosquito larvae. Especially, the extracts of O. stamineus exhibited 64% ofmortality against mosquito larvae at a concentration of 100 µg/ml, while itshowed only 4.8% of mortality against chironomid larvae at aconcentration of 500 µg/ml.1) N. Uchiyama et al., International Conference on Biodiversity of Insects:Challenging Issues in Management and Conservation (BIMC, 2006), India.Key Words: Vietnam, natural medicine, larvicidal activity, Aedesalbopictus, Paratanytarsus grimmii∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗279

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