Carineta dicrophryxothrix Sanborn, 2020b

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 : 52-53

Carineta dicrophryxothrix Sanborn, 2020b

Carineta dicrophryxothrix Sanborn 2020b: 65 . (vic. Tingo Maria, Huanaco Dept., Peru)

REMARKS.—The second of a group of similar species of general size and morphology including C. cyrili , C. dicrophryxothrix , C. gemella , C. lichiana , and C. socia . The bronzing is very light and restricted to the distal half of the fore wing apical cells in this species and the flattened basal pygofer lobe appendage crossing across midline, curved with a claw-like, C-shape tip. Carineta dicrophryxothrix can be distinguished by the curved rather than straight posterior opercular margin and curved rather than pointed medial opercular margin found in C. cyrili . It can be distinguished from C. socia by the lack of bronzing of the distal fore wings and fore wing apical cells that only possess longitudinal lines in that species. Specimens of C. gemella and C. lichiana have a contrasting darker abdomen rather than the abdomen being the same color as the head and thorax characteristic of C. dicrophryxothrix .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported from Ecuador and Peru ( Sanborn 2020b). It was reported from Los Rios and Pichincha provinces ( Sanborn 2020b).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ Rio Palenque, Ecuador / Los Rios Prov. C. Dodson / 1975 // 345” one male (paratype, FSCA); “ Rio Palenque, Ecuador / Los Rios Prov. – J. Longino / 21–VI–74 // 345” one male (paratype, FSCA); “ Rio Palenque , Ecuador / Los Rios Prov. C. Dodson / XI–15–72 // 345” one female (paratype, FSCA), two males (paratypes, AFSC); “ Rio Palenque / Ecuador / March 8, 1917 / Daniel Larusso ” one male (paratype, AFSC); “ EC- UADOR: Pichincha Prov. / Tinlandia , ele. 700 m. / 17 km E Santo Domingo / de Los Colorados / 10–18 June 1985 / William A. Harding ” one male ( LACM); “Hotel Tinlandia, / 12 km. E. of Santo / Domingo de los / Colorados, Ecuador / May 21, 1985 / Clausen & Cervenka” one male ( AFSC) .