Sabethes

''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, accessed 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

References

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Culicinae
Mosquito genera
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy