Sabethes

Sabethes or canopy mosquitos 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.

Subgenera and species

As listed by the Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit:

Subgenus Davismyia Lane and Cerqueira
*Sabethes (Davismyia) petrocchiae Shannon and Del Ponte
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

*Sabethes (Peytonulus) ignotus Harbach
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) luxodens Hall, Howard and Harbach
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) paradoxus Harbach
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) soperi Lane and Cerqueira
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) undosus
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) whitmani Lane and Cerqueira
*Sabethes (Peytonulus) xenismus Harbach
Subgenus Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy
*Sabethes (Sabethes) albiprivus Theobald
*Sabethes (Sabethes) amazonicus Gordon and Evans

*Sabethes (Sabethes) batesi Lane and Cerqueira
*Sabethes (Sabethes) belisarioi Neiva
*Sabethes (Sabethes) bipartipes Dyar and Knab
*Sabethes (Sabethes) cyaneus Fabricius
*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
*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
*Sabethes (Sabethinus) xhyphydes Harbach
Subgenus Sabethoides Theobald
*Sabethes (Sabethoides) chloropterus von Humboldt
*Sabethes (Sabethoides) conditus Moses, Howard and Harbach
*Sabethes (Sabethoides) glaucodaemon Dyar and Shannon
*Sabethes (Sabethoides) tridentatus Cerqueira