Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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 : 53

Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 .

Type species. Cicada formosa Germar 1830: 45 . ( Brazil)

REMARKS. The distinguishing features of Carineta species include a head narrower than the mesonotum, frons as long as or slightly longer than vertex, pronotum considerably shorter than mesonotum, and fore wing width about one-third fore wing length ( Distant 1906a). It is the most speciose of the New World cicada genera ( Sanborn 2017b). Pogue (1996) listed seven undetermined species as occurring in Peru.

DISTRIBUTION. Species of the have been reported across the Neotropical region 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, b; 2013; 2014a; 2017b; 2018b; 2019b, c; 2020a; Sanborn & Heath 2014).