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
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-02-05
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3
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bipartipes
Dyar & Knab, 1906a
(subgenus
Sabethes
)
Type
locality
.
Santo Domingo
,
Dominican Republic
.
Bionomics
. Immature stages have been found in tree holes and
Brazil
nut pods (
Bertholletia excelsa
) (
Lane & Cerqueira 1942
). Larvae of this species were observed preying on mosquitoes of the genera
Culex
Linnaeus, 1758
and
Limatus
Theobald,
1901
in accumulated water in banana leaves at ground level (
Bonne & Bonne-Wepster 1925
).
Arbovirus infection records
. None.
Occurrence in
Brazil
. States of Amazonas, Pará and
Rondônia
* (
Lane & Cerqueira 1942
;
Lane 1953
;
Forattini
et al
. 1970
;
Fé
et al
. 2003
;
Hutchings
et al
. 2005
,
2011
).
*
New record
. State of
Rondônia
, Machadinho D’Oeste, road (
linha
) MA 32, coll. Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R.,
31/III/1987
, reared from larvae collected in a tree hole,
1♂
LePeG (Voucher CCULI1092).
Occurrence in other countries
.
Ecuador
,
French Guiana
,
Panama
,
Dominican Republic
and
Suriname
(
Wilkerson
et al
. 2021
).