Carineta apicalis Distant, 1883b

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 : 54

Carineta apicalis Distant, 1883b

Carineta apicalis Distant 1883b: 192 . (Ega, Amazonas, Brazil and Cayenne, French Guiana)

REMARKS. This is a small (body length <20 mm) unmarked species that is green when fresh but fades to tawny. Females generally have a contrasting castaneous abdomen. The prothorax and head make an obvious triangle. The species can be distinguished by the spine-like extension of the posteromedial male operculum.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana and Peru ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The species has been recorded from Mapiri and Yungas in Bolivia ( Jacobi 1907).