Carineta pilifera Walker, 1858c

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 70-71

Carineta pilifera Walker, 1858c new record

Carineta pilifera Walker 1858a: 314 . (Bogotá, Colombia)

Carineta bilineosa (non Walker) Jacobi 1907: 16, Plate 1, Fig. 21.

REMARKS. Jacobi (1907) described and illustrated a specimen he determined to be C. bilineosa . However, based on the ovoid body, the longitudinal piceous mark on the posterior dorsal prothorax between rounded elevations of the disc, the lack of a transverse piceous mark in the ambient fissure, the presence of the a piceous mark between the anterior arms of the cruciform elevation, greater pilosity, shape of the ulnar and apical cells of the fore wing, and the hyaline wings suggests Jacobi (1907) actually investigated C. pilifera Walker, 1858c . The illustration is very similar to the holotype of C. pilifera in the BMNH and matches specimens in my collection. This species is known from Ecuador and has a broad distribution, and is the only one of the group of Carineta species with similar body shape and markings to have the hyaline wings found in this species.

This is another of the large species heavily marked with piceous with a spot of infuscation on the end apex of anal cell 2 in the hind wing. It can be quickly distinguished from C. centralis and C. trivittata by the bronzed fore wings and spot of infuscation in the distal radial cell of the hind wing. Carineta cristalinea can be distinguished by the longitudinal marks in the distal apical cells of the fore wings. The most similar species is C. maculosa but this species is more robust, the longitudinal marks on the postclypeus extend beyond the apex on the ventral surface, the scutes on either side of the pronotum midline anterior to the pronotal collar are more triangular than round and the pronotal collar is wider.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013). Jacobi (1907) identified specimens from Balzapamba (sic) and Chimbo, Ecuador and Curoïco, Bolivia. I have also seen specimens from Peru (in preparation) that would connect the northern populations to the Bolivian representative as is seen in several other species with similar distribution patterns.