Illustrated identification key to females of the genus Sabethes Robineau-Desvoidy recorded from Brazil (Diptera: Culicidae), in dichotomous and interactive formats, including an updated list of species and new records for the states Author Neves, Maycon Sebastião Alberto Santos 0000-0001-7190-5489 Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. mayconsn@ioc.fiocruz.br Author Motta, Monique Albuquerque 0000-0001-9997-3838 Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. mmotta@ioc.fiocruz.br Author Maciel-De-Freitas, Rafael Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. & Department of Arbovirology and Entomology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Bernhard-Nocht Straβe 74, PLZ 20395, Hamburg, Germany. Author Xavier, Alexandre Da Silva 0000-0003-2669-2466 Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. axavier@ioc.fiocruz.br Author Lourenço-De-Oliveira, Ricardo 0000-0003-0423-5694 Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. lourenco@ioc.fiocruz.br Author Silva-Do-Nascimento, Teresa Fernandes 0000-0002-9895-7198 Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) Avenida Brasil 4365, Manguinhos, CEP 21040 - 900, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. teresa.nascimento@ioc.fiocruz.br text Zootaxa 2024 2024-02-05 5406 2 253 287 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3 1175-5326 10618240 F8B20BCE-9D3C-46AD-8CDE-FFDEF7CD989B purpureus ( Theobald, 1907 ) (subgenus Sabethes ) Type locality . Rio de Janeiro , Brasil . Bionomics . Immature stages of this species are found mainly in water accumulated in tree holes ( Lane & Cerqueira 1942 ). In Venezuela , adults of Sa . purpureus were collected with human landing catches ( Berti et al . 2015 ). In the present study, immature stages of this species were collected in a sapucaia nut oviposition trap ( Coleção de Culicidae 2023 ). Arbovirus infection records . None. Occurrence in Brazil . States of Espírito Santo , Goiás , Tocantins , Mato Grosso , Mato Grosso do Sul , Minas Gerais , Pará, Paraná , Rio de Janeiro , Rio Grande do Sul , Santa Catarina and São Paulo ( Lane & Cerqueira 1942 ; Lane 1953 ; Forattini et al . 1986a , 1986b ; Carvalho et al . 1997 ; Guimarães et al . 2003 ; Cardoso et al . 2005 ; Hutchings et al . 2005 ; Tissot & Navarro-Silva 2008 ; Gomes et al . 2010 ; Reis et al . 2010 ; Mascheretti et al . 2013 ; Chaves et al . 2014 ; Müller et al . 2014 ; Dos Santos Silva et al . 2010 , 2017 ; Orlandin et al . 2017 ; Abreu et al . 2019 ; Cunha et al . 2019 ). Occurrence in other countries . Argentina , Bolivia , French Guiana and Venezuela ( Wilkerson et al . 2021 ).