Sabethes

Sabethes
Female Sabethes cyaneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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]

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]

S. albiprivus

References

  1. ^ 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.
  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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2012-05-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link).
  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. ^ 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.
  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.