Carineta pilifera Walker, 1858a

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 : 57

Carineta pilifera Walker, 1858a

Carineta pilifera Walker 1858a: 314 . (Bogota, Colombia)

Carineta bilineosa Jacobi 1907a: 16 , Plate 1, Fig. 21.

REMARKS.—This is another of the large species heavily marked with piceous with a spot of infuscation on the end apex of anal cell 2 in the hind wing although the spot is reduced in size. It can be distinguished quickly from C. centralis , C. fimbriata , C. producta and C. trivittata by the spot of infuscation on the mediocubital crossvein in the hind wing of these species. All remaining species in the group can be distinguished by the lack of infuscation on the radial and radiomedial crossveins of the fore wings found in C. pilifera .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013), Bolivia ( Sanborn 2019b) and Peru ( Sanborn 2020b). Jacobi (1907a) identified specimens from Balzapamba and Chimbo, Bolívar province, Goding (1925) reported the species from Azoquez, Cañar province. Berger (2001) reported specimens from the Estacion Cientifica San Francisco, Zamora-Chinchipe province.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ Ecuador: Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe / Estacion Cientifica San Francisco , / circa Sabanilla, Estacion / 10.XII.1999 1840 mN.N. / leg. Dirk Berger ” one female ( ZMHB), one female ( AFSC); “ Hacienda La Masco- / ta , Rio Topo Ecuador / Alt. 4500 ft. // (W.J. Coxey) / IV.17.1981 / A.N.S. Lot 315” two female ( AFSC).