Sabethes or canopy mosquitos are primarily an arboreal genus, breeding in plant cavities.

[1] The type species is Sabethes locuples, first described by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy in 1827.

[2] They are generally conspicuously ornamented with shining metallic scales.

[3][4] The antennae of the females of some Sabethes species have long, dense, flagellar whorls resembling those of the males of most other genera of mosquitoes.

[4] Sabethes species mosquitoes occur in Central and South America.