Sabethes chloropterus
Creators: name: Neves, Maycon Sebastião Alberto Santos
name: Motta, Monique Albuquerque
name: Maciel-De-Freitas, Rafael
name: Xavier, Alexandre Da Silva
name: Lourenço-De-Oliveira, Ricardo
name: Silva-Do-Nascimento, Teresa Fernandes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Sabethes
Sabethes chloropterus

description: chloropterus (von Humboldt, 1819)
(subgenus Sabethoides)
Type locality. Guayaquil River, near Borodan, Ecuador.
Bionomics. Immature stages of this species occur mainly in tree holes with a small opening (Galindo et al. 1956b), but they have been collected in sapucaia nut oviposition traps (Vieira et al. 2020). The larvae are facultative predators (Galindo 1957, 1958), observed preying on Wyeomyia arthrostigma (Lutz, 1905) in bamboo traps (Navarro & Machado-Allison 1995). Females are considered to be anthropophilic (Guimarães et al. 1987). They can be easily collected biting humans in forest and at forest edges, both near ground level and in the canopy (Bates 1944; Forattini 1965; Pinheiro et al. 1981; Clark-Gil & Darsie 1983; Abreu et al. 2019; Stanzani et al. 2023), and in CDC light traps (Pecor et al. 2000).
Arbovirus infection records. This species is usually considered to be a secondary vector of YFV in Central and South America, where it has been found naturally infected with the virus several times (Galindo et al. 1956a; Rodaniche & Galindo 1957b; Rodaniche et al. 1957; Forattini 1965; Dégallier et al. 1992; Vasconcelos et al. 1997, 1998; Abreu et al. 2019; Stanzani et al. 2023). It is responsible for maintaining YFV transmission during the dry season, when the primary vectors of the genus Haemagogus Williston, 1896 disappear or are very rare (Oliveira et al. 2023). Sabethes chloropterus has also been detected naturally infected with St. Louis and Ilheus encephalitis viruses (Rodaniche & Galindo 1957a; Galindo et al. 1959; Hervé et al. 1986).
Occurrence in Brazil. All Brazilian states, except Santa Catarina (Lane & Cerqueira 1942; Lane 1953; Pinheiro et al. 1981; Guimarães & Arlé 1984; Guimarães et al. 1985; Forattini et al. 1986a, 1986b, 1973; Guimarães & Victório 1986; Guimarães et al. 1987; Xavier & Mattos 1989; Xavier et al. 1989; Carvalho et al. 1997; Vasconcelos et al. 1997; Dégallier et al. 1998; Fernandéz et al. 2000; Forattini 2002; Camargo-Neves et al. 2005; Hutchings et al. 2005; Gomes et al. 2008; Santos et al. 2008; Pinto et al. 2009; Dos Santos Silva et al. 2010; Alencar et al. 2011, 2018; Moreno et al. 2011; Ribeiro et al. 2012; Lira-Vieira et al. 2013; Mascheretti et al. 2013; Mucci et al. 2015; Serra et al. 2016; Abreu et al. 2019; Cunha et al. 2019; Stanzani et al. 2023).
Occurrence in other countries. Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Wilkerson et al. 2021).
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 253-287 in Zootaxa 5406 (2) on pages 266-267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10618240