Sabethes
Sabethes mosquitoes are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities. The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.
They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales. 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 and South America.Medical Importance
Sabethes chloropterus has been found infected with St. Louis encephalitis virus and Ilhéus virus, and transmits yellow fever virus to humans.As listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:
- Subgenus Davismyia Lane and Cerqueira
- *Sabethes petrocchiae
- Subgenus Nomina Dubia 13
- *Sabethes lutzii Theobald nomen dubium
- Subgenus Peytonulus Harbach
- *Sabethes aurescens
- *Sabethes fabricii Lane and Cerqueira
- *Sabethes gorgasi Duret
- *Sabethes hadrognathus Harbach
- *Sabethes identicus Dyar and Knab
- *Sabethes ignotus Harbach
- *Sabethes luxodens Hall, Howard and Harbach
- *Sabethes paradoxus Harbach
- *Sabethes soperi Lane and Cerqueira
- *Sabethes undosus
- *Sabethes whitmani Lane and Cerqueira
- *Sabethes xenismus Harbach
- Subgenus Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy
- *Sabethes albiprivus Theobald albiprivatus Lutz, Sabethes albiprivatus Theobald, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes amazonicus Gordon and Evans happleri Bonne, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes batesi Lane and Cerqueira
- *Sabethes belisarioi Neiva argyronotum Edwards, Sabethes goeldii Howard, Dyar, and Knab, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes bipartipes Dyar and Knab
- *Sabethes cyaneus locuples Robineau-Desvoidy, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes
- *Sabethes gymnothorax Harbach and Petersen
- *Sabethes lanei Cerqueira
- *Sabethes nitidus Theobald
- *Sabethes ortizi Vargas and Díaz Nájera
- *Sabethes paraitepuyensis Anduze
- *Sabethes purpureus purpureus Peryassu, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes quasicyaneus Peryassú
- *Sabethes schnusei
- *Sabethes shannoni Cerqueira
- *Sabethes spixi Cerqueira
- *Sabethes tarsopus Dyar and Knab
- Subgenus Sabethinus Lutz
- *Sabethes idiogenes Harbach
- *Sabethes intermedius
- *Sabethes melanonymphe Dyar
- *Sabethes xhyphydes Harbach
- Subgenus Sabethoides Theobald
- *Sabethes chloropterus confusus Theobald, Sabethes imperfectus Bonne-Wepster and Bonne, and Sabethes
- *Sabethes conditus Moses, Howard and Harbach
- *Sabethes glaucodaemon
- *Sabethes tridentatus'' Cerqueira
