''Sabethes'' mosquitoes are primarily an
arboreal
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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
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is ''
Sabethes locuples'', first described by
Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
André Jean Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy (1 January 1799 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye – 25 June 1857 in Paris) was a French physician and entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera (flies) and to some extent of the Coleoptera (beetles).
...
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
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
* Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...
and
South America
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.
[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
The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit ("WRBU") is a US Army organization that conducts laboratory and field research on the systematics of medically important arthropods in support of epidemiological investigations and disease prevention and control ...
, 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
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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
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:
[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
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, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=48, accessed 2 Mar 2016.
*
Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''
Davismyia'' Lane and Cerqueira
**''
Sabethes (Davismyia) petrocchiae
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes 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/p ...
'' (Shannon and Del Ponte) (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Davismyia) monoleua
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'' Martini)
*
Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
Nomina Dubia 13
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Sabethes lutzii''
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nomen dubium
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Zoology
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*
Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''
Peytonulus'' Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) aurescens
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'' (Lutz)
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) fabricii
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'' Lane and Cerqueira
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) gorgasi
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes 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/p ...
'' Duret
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) hadrognathus'' Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) identicus''
Dyar and Knab (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) lutzianus'' Lane and Cerqueira)
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) ignotus'' Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) luxodens'' Hall,
Howard
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and Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) paradoxus'' Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) soperi'' Lane and Cerqueira
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) undosus'' (
Coquillett
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)
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) whitmani'' Lane and Cerqueira
**''
Sabethes (Peytonulus) xenismus'' Harbach
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Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''
Sabethes
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes 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/p ...
''
Robineau-Desvoidy
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivus''
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The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...
(
syn.
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* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnae ...
: ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivatus'' Lutz, ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivatus''
Theobald Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans.
The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...
, and ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) neivai'' Petrocchi)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) amazonicus'' Gordon and Evans (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) happleri'' Bonne, and ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) longfieldae'' Edwards)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) batesi'' Lane and Cerqueira
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) belisarioi'' Neiva (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) argyronotum'' Edwards, ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) goeldii''
Howard
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, Dyar, and Knab, and ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) schausi''
Dyar and Knab)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) bipartipes''
Dyar and Knab (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) chroiopus''
Dyar and Knab)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) cyaneus
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in Tree hollow, plant cavities.Ralph E. Harbach. 1994. The subgenus ''Sabethinus'' of ''Sabethes'' (Diptera: Culicidae). ''Systematic Entomology'', 19: 207-234; https://www.resear ...
'' (Fabricius) (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethes) locuples
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes 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/p ...
''
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 Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans.
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**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) ortizi'' Vargas and Díaz Nájera
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) paraitepuyensis'' Anduze
**''
Sabethes (Sabethes) purpureus'' (
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The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...
) (
syn.
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* In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnae ...
: ''
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
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''
Sabethinus'' Lutz
**''
Sabethes (Sabethinus) idiogenes'' Harbach
**''
Sabethes (Sabethinus) intermedius'' (Lutz)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethinus) melanonymphe''
Dyar (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethinus) albiprivatus'' Theobald)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethinus) xhyphydes'' Harbach
*
Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''
Sabethoides''
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**''
Sabethes (Sabethoides) chloropterus
''Sabethes'' mosquitoes 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/p ...
'' (von Humboldt) (
syn.
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: ''
Sabethes (Sabethoides) confusus''
Theobald Theobald is a Germanic dithematic name, composed from the elements '' theod-'' "people" and ''bald'' "bold". The name arrived in England with the Normans.
The name occurs in many spelling variations, including Theudebald, Diepold, Theobalt, Tybal ...
, ''
Sabethes (Sabethoides) imperfectus'' Bonne-Wepster and Bonne, and ''
Sabethes (Sabethoides) rangeli'' Surcouf and Gonzales-Rincones)
**''
Sabethes (Sabethoides) conditus'' Moses,
Howard
Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...
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