Carineta viridicata Distant, 1883a

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 : 91

Carineta viridicata Distant, 1883a

Carineta viridicata Distant 1883a: 19 . (Bugaba, Panama)

REMARKS. This species is the last of a group of Peruvian species that are of similar size and general morphology including C. dicrophryxothrix n. sp., C. dolosa , C. doxiptera , C. gemella , C. hamata , C. rumipataensis n. sp., C. socia , C. ventrilloni , and C. viridicata . This species can be distinguished from C. dolosa , C. doxiptera , C. rumipataensis n. sp., and C. ventrilloni by the straight rather than curved posterior margin of the operculum in these species. It can be distinguished from all but C. socia by the bronzing of the distal fore wings found in the remaining species and instead of only having longitudinal lines within of the fore wing apical cells. It can be distinguished from C. socia by the anterior margin of the supra-antennal plates is smoothly curved rather than angled in the middle, the lateral angle of the pronotal collar being curved rather than at an approximate right angle, the posterior opening of the timbal cavity has a right angle on the ventral margin rather than being smoothly curved, the male opercula have a straight rather than a curved posterior margin, and the basal lobe appendage forming a C-shape rather than extending along the midline with the terminus bent at a right angle and crossing to the contralateral side of the body as they do in C. socia . Carineta gemella can also be distinguished by the contrasting abdominal coloration. The pointed medial margin to the operculum of C. viridicata rather than the rounded medial margin distinguishes C. dicrophryxothrix n. sp. Finally, C. hamata can be distinguished from C. viridicata the pygofer basal lobe appendage that is sword-like and terminates in a long point and a small point rather than terminating in a claw-like structure as it does in C. viridicata .

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported previously from Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2018b; 2019b). Jacobi (1951) reported the species from Sapito in Peru.