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 cyaneus ( Fabricius, 1805 ) (subgenus Sabethes ) Type locality . Cayenne , French Guiana . Bionomics . Immature stages of Sa . cyaneus primarily develop in water in tree holes and bamboo internodes ( Shannon 1931 ). They have been collected mainly in a bamboo trap with a small hole ( Galindo et al . 1951 ) and natural sapucaia nut oviposition traps ( Santos et al . 2020 ). The larvae are facultative predators ( Galindo et al . 1951 ; Galindo 1957 , 1958 ; Hancock et al . 2022 ). Adults have been collected in forest canopy between 8 and 30 m above ground level ( Ferreira Neto et al . 1970 ; Pinto et al . 2009 ). Arbovirus infection records . Sabethes cyaneus has been found infected with YFV in Brazil ( Vasconcelos 2003 ). The species exhibited low competence during experimental transmission of ZKV ( Karna et al . 2018 ). Occurrence in Brazil . States of Acre , Amazonas Amapá , Bahia , Goiás , Maranhão , Pará, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo ( Shannon 1931 ; Lane & Cerqueira 1942 ; Lane 1953 ; Ferreira Neto et al . 1970 ; Forattini et al . 1986a , 1973 ; Xavier & Mattos 1989; Xavier et al. 1989; Dégallier et al . 1998 ; Souto & Pimentel 2005 ; Hutchings et al . 2005 , 2011 , 2013 ; Barbosa et al . 2008 ; Pinto et al . 2009 ; Confalonieri & Costa Neto 2012 ). Occurrence in other countries . Antilles, Argentina Belize , Colombia , Costa Rica , Guyana , French Guiana, Honduras , Mexico , Nicaragua , Panama , Peru , Suriname , Trinidade and Tobago , and Venezuela ( Wilkerson et al . 2021 ).