Sabethes
Genus of flies
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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]
| Sabethes | |
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| Female Sabethes cyaneus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Subfamily: | Culicinae |
| Tribe: | Sabethini |
| Genus: | Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827 |
| Type species | |
| Sabethes locuples Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827 | |
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
Sabethes 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
As 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) 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