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Culicidae > Culicinae > Sabethini

Distribution
Argentina, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
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Synonyms
Simondella Laveran 1902c:1160. Haplotype: curvirostris Laveran.
Lemmamyia Dyar l919d:140. Orthotype: Limatus methysticus Dyar and Knab.

Bionomics
Limatus are forest mosquitoes. Larvae have been found in cavities such as bamboo, tree-holes, coconut husks, cacao pods, fallen leaves and spathes, snail shells, rock-holes along streams, and a variety of small artificial containers. Adults have been captured during landing-biting collections made at ground level and on towers in forest.

Medical Importance
Wyeomyia virus has been isolated from a pool of Limatus in Trinidad and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus has been isolated from Li. flavisetosus, but species of the genus are unlikely to be of medical or economic importance to humans.

Important References >> 		habitus image Representative species shown here:
Limatus durhamii

Genus-specific Diagnostic Characters, Adult Stage:
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1. Scutum with some metallic or irridescent scales,
2. Eyes separated above antenna,
3. Scales or setae on paratergite absent.

Recommended characters:
4. Prespiracular setae absent,
5. Base of hindcoxa in line with or slightly above base of mesomeron,
6. Lower mesepimeral setae absent,
7. Postspiracular setae absent.

Genus-specific Diagnostic Characters, Larval Stage >>