Sabethes

Short description: Genus of flies

Sabethes

Female S. Cyaneus
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Animalia

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Arthropoda

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Insecta

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Diptera

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Culicidae

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Culicinae

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Sabethini

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Sabethes

Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827

Type species
Sabethes locuples

Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827

Sabethes or Canopy Mosquito 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]

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
* 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)

S. albiprivus

*     * 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

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
2. ↑ 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". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301052228/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/110700-0.pdf. Retrieved 2012-05-01. .
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ 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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