Sabethes or canopy mosquitos are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities.[1] The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.[2]
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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
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They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales.[3][4] 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.[4]
Sabethes species mosquitoes occur in Central and South America.[5]
Medical importance
editSabethes chloropterus has been found infected with St. Louis encephalitis virus and Ilhéus virus, and transmits yellow fever virus to humans.[1][6]
Subgenera and species
editAs listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:[7]
- 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
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.