"Malaria mosquitoes" do not carry malaria, do not bite people and are not mosquitoes

Some privacy please?
Originally uploaded by J-Fish

I can't tell you how many of these poor creatures my family members and I have destroyed over the years. Granted, we never saw them bite, but the look alone was enough to fill our simple souls with fear and disgust. "Malaria mosquito! — someone would shout, — Kill it!"
Here's the fact.
While there is such thing as a "malaria mosquito", these crane flies are not them. True, they look like oversized, poorly assembled models of mosquitoes, but on closer inspection they lack the crucial body part: the penetrating proboscis.