Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 40

Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 .

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 1906). 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; 2014; 2017b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).