Carineta fasciculata ( Germar, 1821 )

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 : 70-71

Carineta fasciculata ( Germar, 1821)

Carineta fasciculata (non Germar) Goding 1925: 9 , 19.

Carineta maculosa Torres 1948: 114 . (Villa Nougués, Tucumán, Argentina)

REMARKS.—Previous mentions of the species in Ecuador are considered misidentifications of Carineta maculosa . Torres (1948) identified the species illustrated as C. fasciculata in Jacobi (1907a) as C. maculosa . Torres (1948) further corrected identifications of examples of northern Carineta species as his new species. The distribution of C. fasciculata is illustrated in Martinelli & Zucchi (1997). The species appears to be restricted to grassland, savannah, open forest habitats, xeric shrublands and agricultural areas (as defined by Leeuwen et al. 2013) of eastern and southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Bolivia ( Martinelli & Zucchi 1997). The reference to Ecuador in Jacobi (1907a) was made before Torres (1948) described his species and Torres showed Jacobi had confused the taxa since Jacobi illustrated the taxon he considered to be C. fasciculata . Similarly, Jacobi (1951) makes comparative references to C. postica and C. fasciculata in the description of C. titschacki Jacobi, 1951 which also differs significantly from the true C. fasciculata . Based on these data, the records of C. fasciculata in Ecuador are considered to be C. maculosa and C. fasciculata is removed from the cicada fauna of Ecuador.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2018c; 2019b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).