Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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

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scientific name	Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
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Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 View in CoL .

TYPE SPECIES. Cicada formosa Germar 1830: 45 . ( Brazil)

REMARKS. Species of Carineta are characterized by having a head that is narrower than the mesonotum, the frons is as long as or slightly longer than the vertex, a pronotum that is considerably shorter than the mesonotum, and the fore wing width is about one-third the fore wing length ( Distant 1906a). It is the New World genus with the greatest known alpha diversity ( Sanborn 2017b).

DISTRIBUTION. The genus is the most speciose in the New World with species being reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a; 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2017b; 2018c; Sanborn & Heath 2014).

References

Amyot, C. J. B., & Audinet-Serville, A. (1843) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hemipteres. Deuxime partie. Homopteres. Homoptera Latr. Librairie encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 675 pp.

Distant, W. L. (1906 a) A synonymic catalogue of Homoptera. Part I. Cicadidae. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 207 pp.

Duffels, J. P. & van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Series Entomologica 34, Dordrect, 414 pp.

Germar, E. F. (1830) Species Cicadarium enumeratae et sub genera distributae. Thon's Entomologisches Archiv, 2, 37 - 57.

Metcalf, Z. P. (1963 c) General catalogue of the Homoptera, Fascicle VIII. Cicadoidea. Part 2. Tibicinidae. North Carolina State College Contribution, 1564, i-vi, 1 - 492.

Sanborn, A. F. & Heath, M. S. (2014) The cicadas of Argentina with new records, a new genus and fifteen new species (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae). Zootaxa, 3883 (1), 1 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3883.1. 1

Sanborn, A. F. (2017 b) A new species of Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadoidea: Cicadidae) from Martinique. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 119, 629 - 636. https: // doi. org / 10.4289 / 0013 - 8797.119.4.62 9