Sabethes

Sabethes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Culicidae
Subfamily:	Culicinae
Tribe:	Sabethini
Genus:	Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827

Sabethes genus mosquitoes are primarily arboreal, 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)
  • 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. 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, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/110700-0.pdf.
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. 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.