Carineta ventralis Jacobi, 1907

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 90

Carineta ventralis Jacobi, 1907

Carineta ventralis Jacobi 1907: 19 . (Marcapata, Peru)

REMARKS. The last of the large species of Carineta heavily marked with piceous and a spot of infuscation on the apex of the hind wing anal cell 2. It can be distinguished quickly from C. centralis and C. trivittata by the spot of infuscation on the mediocubital crossvein in the hind wing of these species. Carineta basalis can be distinguished by the piceous fascia on the dorsal pronotal midline, the hyaline fore wings and the large male opercula and Carineta pilifera can be distinguished by the infuscation on the fore wing radial and radiomedial crossveins. Carineta postica is slightly larger (21 mm vs 18.5 mm body length), has two longitudinal fasciae on the postclypeus, the dorsal pronotal marks are not connected in a zig-zag pattern and the pronotal collar lateral angles lacks piceous marks.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Ecuador and Peru ( Metcalf 1963c). Jacobi (1907; 1951) reported the species from Marcapata.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU: Dpto. La Libertad / Cumpang, above Uctubamba / on trail to Ongón , el. / 2625m., 16-X-1979 / L.J. Barkley, collector // collected in / cloud forest // LSAM / 0300512 ” one female ( LSAM); “ PERU: Dept. Junin / Pampa Hermosa Lodge / 1–6-IV-2011, 1220 m / J. Heppner & C. Carrera ” one male ( FSCA) .