Carineta socia Uhler, 1875

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 : 83

Carineta socia Uhler, 1875

Carineta socia Uhler 1875: 285 . (Lower Amazons, perhaps near Santarem, Pará, Brazil)

REMARKS. This species is one 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 and C. viridicata 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. viridicata by the anterior margin of the supra-antennal plates is angled in the middle rather than being smoothly curved, the lateral angle of the pronotal collar forms an approximate right angle rather than being curved, the posterior opening of the timbal cavity is smoothly curved rather than having a right angle on the ventral margin, the male opercula have a curved rather than a straight posterior margin, and the basal lobe appendage extending along the midline with the terminus bent at a right angle and crossing to the contralateral side of the body rather than forming a C-shape as they do in C. viridicata . The contrasting color of the abdomen quickly distinguishes specimens of C. gemella . The pointed medial margin to the operculum of C. socia rather than the rounded medial margin distinguishes C. dicrophryxothrix n. sp. Finally, C. hamata be distinguished from C. socia by the pygofer basal lobe appendage that is straight and terminates in one long and one small point rather than the basal pygofer lobes that are thin, crossing the midline and terminate in a single point in C. socia .

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana and Peru ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Dorval et al. 2011; Sanborn 2011a; 2013; 2019b) with the first record for Venezuela reported recently ( Sanborn 2020a). Jacobi (1907; 1951) reported the species from Callanga, Chanchamayo, Cumbase, Huanaco, and Pachitea in Peru.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. “ PERU: Dept. Loreto, 160km / NE Iquitos, Explornapo / Camp , 2 km from Rio / Napo on Rio Sucuaari / 27–31-VIII-1992 / Castner, Skelley, et al. ” one male ( FSCA); “ PERU: Loreto Dept., / Explorama Lodge , 50 mi. / NE Iquitos on Amazon R. / 12–19-III-1988. / J. E. Eger, coll.” one male ( AFSC); “ PERU: Madre de Dios / Rio Tambopata Res. / 18 January 1987 / QDWheeler/JVMcHugh / ex Blacklight ” one male ( AFSC); “ Pan de Azucar / Dept. Pasco, PERU / July 8–9, 1961 / F.S. Truxal ” two males ( LACM); “ PERU, Loreto / Tingo Maria / 10 Feb. 1977 / J.R. Robertson ” one male ( LACM).