Sabethes or canopy mosquitos are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities.Ralph E. Harbach. 1994. The subgenus Sabethinus of Sabethes (Diptera: Culicidae). Systematic Entomology, 19: 207-234; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227701366_The_subgenus_Sabethinus_of_Sabethes_Diptera_Culicidae. The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. 1827. Essai sur la Tribu des Culicides. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, III: 390-413; 411-412, .
They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales.J. Lane. 1953. Neotropical Culicidae, Volume II -- Tribe Culicini, Deinocerites, Uranotaenia, Mansonia, Orthopodomyia, Aedomyia, Aedes, Psorophora, Haemagogus, tribe Sabethini, Trichoprosopon, Wyeomyia, Phoniomyia, Limatus and Sabethes, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pp. 553-1112; 1055-1098; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/074300-11.pdf.John N. Belkin. 1968. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae) IX. The type specimens of New World mosquitoes in European museums. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 3(4): 1-69; 29; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/008500-9.pdf, accessed 2 Mar 2016. The antennae of the females of some Sabethes species have long, dense, flagellar whorls resembling those of the males of most other genera of mosquitoes.
Sabethes species mosquitoes occur in Central and South America.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Sabethes" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/generapages/sabethes.htm 2 Mar 2016.
Medical importance
Sabethes chloropterus has been found infected with St. Louis encephalitis virus and Ilhéus virus, and transmits yellow fever virus to humans.Enid de Rodaniche and Pedro Galindo. 1957. Isolation of Ilhéus Virus from Sabethes chloropterus captured in Guatemala in 1956. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 6(4): 686-687; http://www.ajtmh.org/content/6/4/686.extract.
Subgenera and species
As listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culicidae » Culicinae » Sabethini » Genus Sabethes" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=48, accessed 2 Mar 2016.
Subgenus Davismyia Lane and Cerqueira Sabethes (Davismyia) petrocchiae Shannon and Del Ponte (syn.: Sabethes (Davismyia) monoleua Martini) Subgenus Nomina Dubia 13 Sabethes lutzii Theobald nomen dubium Subgenus Peytonulus Harbach Sabethes (Peytonulus) aurescens Lutz Sabethes (Peytonulus) fabricii Lane and Cerqueira Sabethes (Peytonulus) gorgasi Duret Sabethes (Peytonulus) hadrognathus Harbach Sabethes (Peytonulus) identicus Dyar and Knab (syn.: Sabethes (Peytonulus) lutzianus Lane and Cerqueira)
Sabethes (Peytonulus) ignotus Harbach Sabethes (Peytonulus) luxodens Hall, Howard and Harbach Sabethes (Peytonulus) paradoxus Harbach Sabethes (Peytonulus) soperi Lane and Cerqueira Sabethes (Peytonulus) undosus (Coquillett) Sabethes (Peytonulus) whitmani Lane and Cerqueira Sabethes (Peytonulus) xenismus Harbach Subgenus Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivus Theobald (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivatus Lutz, Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivatus Theobald, and Sabethes (Sabethes) neivai Petrocchi)
Sabethes (Sabethes) amazonicus Gordon and Evans (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) happleri Bonne, and Sabethes (Sabethes) longfieldae Edwards) Sabethes (Sabethes) batesi Lane and Cerqueira Sabethes (Sabethes) belisarioi Neiva (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) argyronotum Edwards, Sabethes (Sabethes) goeldii Howard, Dyar, and Knab, and Sabethes (Sabethes) schausi Dyar and Knab) Sabethes (Sabethes) bipartipes Dyar and Knab (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) chroiopus Dyar and Knab) Sabethes (Sabethes) cyaneus Fabricius (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) locuples Robineau-Desvoidy, and Sabethes (Sabethes) remipes Wiedemann) Sabethes (Sabethes) forattinii Cerqueira Sabethes (Sabethes) gymnothorax Harbach and Petersen Sabethes (Sabethes) lanei Cerqueira Sabethes (Sabethes) nitidus Theobald Sabethes (Sabethes) ortizi Vargas and Díaz Nájera Sabethes (Sabethes) paraitepuyensis Anduze Sabethes (Sabethes) purpureus Theobald (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethes) purpureus Peryassu, and Sabethes (Sabethes) remipusculus Dyar) Sabethes (Sabethes) quasicyaneus Peryassú Sabethes (Sabethes) schnusei Martini Sabethes (Sabethes) shannoni Cerqueira Sabethes (Sabethes) spixi Cerqueira Sabethes (Sabethes) tarsopus Dyar and Knab
Subgenus Sabethinus Lutz Sabethes (Sabethinus) idiogenes Harbach Sabethes (Sabethinus) intermedius Lutz Sabethes (Sabethinus) melanonymphe Dyar (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethinus) albiprivatus Theobald) Sabethes (Sabethinus) xhyphydes Harbach Subgenus Sabethoides Theobald Sabethes (Sabethoides) chloropterus von Humboldt (syn.: Sabethes (Sabethoides) confusus Theobald, Sabethes (Sabethoides) imperfectus Bonne-Wepster and Bonne, and Sabethes (Sabethoides) rangeli Surcouf and Gonzales-Rincones) Sabethes (Sabethoides) conditus Moses, Howard and Harbach Sabethes (Sabethoides) glaucodaemon Dyar and Shannon Sabethes (Sabethoides) tridentatus Cerqueira
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