Culex (Melanoconion) sacchettae, Sirivanakarn & Jakob, 1982: 192

Torres-Gutierrez, Carolina & Sallum, Maria Anice Mureb, 2015, Catalog of the subgenus Melanoconion of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae) for South America, Zootaxa 4028 (1), pp. 1-50 : 30

116. sacchettae Sirivanakarn & Jakob, 1982: 192 (M, F).

Holotype M: Cananéia , São Paulo, Brazil ( FSP) (Type locality was corrected. Previous record under: " Cananeia (Brucouha), Sao Paulo, Brazil ").

Distribution in South America: Brazil.

Bibliographic sources: The redescription of the species, including immature forms, was given by Forattini & Sallum (1989d). Relevant references can be found in Pecor et al. (1992). In addition, this species was included in the Revision of the Spissipes Section by Sallum & Forattini (1996) with notes on bionomics.

Some ecological notes are included in Forattini et al. (1986a, b; 1987a,b; 1989a,b; 1990; 1991; 1993b,c; 1995). Geographical records can be found in Natal (1986); Gomes et al. (1987); Forattini et al. (1988, 1997, 2000); Forattini & Sallum (1991); Navarro & Weaver (2004); Bona & Navarro - Silva (2008); Ramos (2009); Guedes (2010); Laporta & Sallum (2011); Laporta (2012); Ribeiro et al. (2012); Sá & Sallum (2013); Chaves et al. (2014); Guedes & Navarro - Silva (2014).

Additional comments: Iversson (1994) documented isolations of Caraparu virus from Culex sacchettae mosquitoes collected in 1976 by Calisher et al. (1982) in Brazil. Shope et al. (1988) documented the isolation of Bertioga and Cananeia viruses (Group Guama viruses, Bunyaviridae ) from this species.