Sabethes lutzii

Sabethes lutzii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Culicidae
Subfamily:
Culicinae
Tribe:
Sabethini
Genus:
Sabethes
Subgenus:
Nomina Dubia 13[1]
Species:
Sa. lutzii
Binomial name
Sabethes lutzii

Sabethes lutzii is a species name designated a "nomen dubium" i.e., a "dubious (or doubtful) name," for a mosquito specimen that remains insufficiently evidenced to be accepted as a proved species.[2]

Sabethes lutzii was first characterized in 1903 from a damaged specimen collected in Manaós, Brazil, in a letter written by the first scientist to view it, physician Dr. Adolfo Lutz, to entomologist Dr. Frederick V. Theobald who then described it in published literature.[2][3] The specimen was described as large in relative size, of a very dark blue uniform metallic color, and differing from other species by the lack of white scales marking the femurs.[4]

Theobald indicated that the holotype specimen was in the British Museum (Natural History) collection, but it was not located there by a later researcher.[2] More recent researchers have speculated that the holotype specimen may be represented by a slide of a mosquito wing marked "da Coll. do Dr. Lutz/XI-930/C.L." in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz collection.[5] However, due to the lack of certainty, the name is currently considered a nomen dubium.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b c Belkin, John N. (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.
  3. ^ Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. A monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London: Brit. Mus. (Natur. Hist.) Vol. III, p. 323; http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112010058789;view=1up;seq=347.
  4. ^ Lima, A. da Costa (February 1931). "Sobre as especies dos generos Sabethes e Sabethoides: (Diptera: Culicidae)" [On the species of the genera Sabethes and Sabethoides: (Diptera: Culicidae)]. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (in Portuguese). 25 (1): 51–64. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761931000100003.
  5. ^ Marchon-Silva, Verônica; Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo; Almeida, Magaly Dolsan de; Silva-Vasconcelos, Adenildo da; Costa, Jane (August 1996). "The type specimens of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) deposited in the entomological collection of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 91 (4): 471–478. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761996000400014.


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