Sabethes lutzii
| Sabethes lutzii | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Subfamily: | Culicinae |
| Tribe: | Sabethini |
| Genus: | Sabethes |
| Subgenus: | Nomina Dubia 13[1] |
| Species: | Sa. lutzii |
| Binomial name | |
| Sabethes lutzii (Theobald, 1903, nomen dubium) | |
Sabethes lutzii is a species name designated a "nomen dubium" i.e., a "dubious (or doubtful) name," for a mosquito specimen that remains insufficiently evidenced to be accepted as a proved species.[2]
Sabethes lutzii was first characterized in 1903 from a damaged specimen collected in Manaós, Brazil, in a letter written by the first scientist to view it, physician Dr. Adolfo Lutz, to entomologist Dr. Frederick V. Theobald who then described it in published literature.[2][3] The specimen was described as large in relative size, of a very dark blue uniform metallic color, and differing from other species by the lack of white scales marking the femurs.[4]
Theobald indicated that the holotype specimen was in the British Museum (Natural History) collection, but it was not located there by a later researcher.[2] More recent researchers have speculated that the holotype specimen may be represented by a slide of a mosquito wing marked "da Coll. do Dr. Lutz/XI-930/C.L." in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz collection.[5] However, due to the lack of certainty, the name is currently considered a nomen dubium.[1]
References
- 1 2 Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Culicidae » Culicinae » Sabethini » Genus Sabethes" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=48, accessed 2 Mar 2016.
- 1 2 3 John N. Belkin. 1968. Mosquito Studies (Diptera, Culicidae) IX. The type specimens of New World mosquitoes in European museums. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 3(4): 1-69; 31; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/008500-9.pdf, accessed 2 Mar 2016.
- ↑ Frederick V. Theobald. 1903. A monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. London: Brit. Mus. (Natur. Hist.) Vol. III, p. 323; http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112010058789;view=1up;seq=347.
- ↑ A. da Costa Lima. 1931. Sobre as especies dos generos Sabethes e Sabethoides. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, XXV(1): 51-64+Estampas XV-XVII; 52; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/028700-2.PDF.
- ↑ Veronica Marchon-Silva, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Magaly Dolsan de Almeida, Adenildo da Silva-Vasconcelos, and Jane Costa. 1996. The Type Specimens of Mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) Deposited in the Entomological Collection of the Institute Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 91(4): 471-478; 474-475; http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S0074-02761996000400014&script=sci_arttext.