| Sabethes | |
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| Female Sabethes cyaneus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Subfamily: | Culicinae |
| Tribe: | Sabethini |
| Genus: | Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Sabethes locuples Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827 | |
Sabethes or canopy mosquitos are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities. The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.
They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales. 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.
Medical importance
Sabethes chloropterus has been found infected with St. Louis encephalitis virus and Ilhéus virus, and transmits yellow fever virus to humans.
Subgenera and species
As listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:
- Subgenus Davismyia Lane and Cerqueira
- Sabethes (Davismyia) petrocchiae (Shannon and Del Ponte) (syn.: Sabethes (Davismyia) monoleua Martini)
- Subgenus Nomina Dubia 13
- 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) 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
- 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
References
- ^ 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.
- 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, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). - 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.
- 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, accessed 2 Mar 2016.
- 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.
- 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.
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