The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records
Author
Sanborn, Allen F.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-12
4655
1
1
104
journal article
26048
10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1
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Genus
Carineta
Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
Carineta
Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482
.
TYPE
SPECIES.
Cicada formosa
Germar 1830: 45
. (
Brazil
)
REMARKS. Species of
Carineta
are characterized by having a head that is narrower than the mesonotum, the frons is as long as or slightly longer than the vertex, a pronotum that is considerably shorter than the mesonotum, and the fore wing width is about one-third the fore wing length (
Distant 1906a
). It is the New World genus with the greatest known alpha diversity (
Sanborn 2017b
).
DISTRIBUTION. The genus is the most speciose in the New World with species being reported 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; 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2017b; 2018c;
Sanborn & Heath 2014
).