Sabethes gymnothorax, Harbach & Petersen, 1992

Neves, Maycon Sebastião Alberto Santos, Motta, Monique Albuquerque, Maciel-De-Freitas, Rafael, Xavier, Alexandre Da Silva, Lourenço-De-Oliveira, Ricardo & Silva-Do-Nascimento, Teresa Fernandes, 2024, 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, Zootaxa 5406 (2), pp. 253-287 : 268-269

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10632115

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Sabethes gymnothorax
status

 

gymnothorax Harbach & Petersen, 1992 View in CoL

(subgenus Sabethes )

Type locality. Bayano Reservoir, Maje Island, Panama.

Bionomics. The immature stages of this species have been collected in sapucaia nut oviposition traps ( Vieira et al. 2020). Larvae of Sa. gymnothorax were observed preying on Haemagogus larvae in the laboratory, where larval development lasted 4‒5 weeks at 25°C (Harbach & Pertensen 1992).

Arbovirus infection records. None.

Occurrence in Brazil. States of Amazonas and São Paulo ( Mucci et al. 2015; Hutchings et al. 2016, 2018; Cunha et al. 2019).

Occurrence in other countries. Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and Panama ( Wilkerson et al. 2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Sabethes

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