Carineta congrua Walker, 1858b

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Ecuador including the description of five new species, a new subtribe, four new synonymies, and fifteen new records, Zootaxa 4880 (1), pp. 1-80 : 47-48

Carineta congrua Walker, 1858b

Carineta congrua Walker 1858b: 26 . ( Colombia)

REMARKS.—This is a small to intermediate species (body length 15–17 mm) with hyaline wings, lightly bronzed distally, and minimal mesothoracic markings. The pubescence in noted by Walker (1858b) is also present in C. rustica Goding, 1925 . Carineta congrua can be distinguished from C. rustica by the slightly larger body size, lack of piceous surrounding the ocelli, lack of central pronotal fascia and pronotal markings, lack of mesonotal markings, bronzed distal wings rather than the linear infuscation in the apical cells, and lack of a row of lateral abdominal tergite spots in C. congrua .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Colombia and Ecuador ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013) with recent records reported for Peru ( Sanborn 2020b). Goding (1925) reported the species from Surula, Morona Santiago province. Berger (2001) reported a specimen from the Estacion Cientifica San Francisco, Zamora-Chinchipe province.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR: Napo / Rte a Loreto, Km 11; 1500m / 20–XII–1984 / N. Venedictoff // Allyn Museum / Acc. 1986-26” one female ( AFSC).