Carineta genitalostridens Boulard, 1986b

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 : 54

Carineta genitalostridens Boulard, 1986b

Carineta genitalostridens Boulard 1986b: 198 . (Route from Gualaceo to Mendez, km 41, 2400 m, Morona-Santiago Province, Ecuador)

Carineta viridicollis (non Germar) Berger 2001: 14, Table 1, 46–47, fig. 19, 53, Fig. 21, 54–55, Table 2, Plate XIII.

REMARKS.—The second of the Ecuadorian species with the bicolored pronotal collar. This species is most similar to C. urostridulens but can distinguished by the prothorax lacking piceous markings and the mesothorax marked with piceous only on the parapsidal suture, smoothly curved posterior opercular margin, the almost upright, ground color primary fore femora spine and pygofer basal lobe appendage that broadens significantly as it terminates in C. genitalostridens rather than prothorax with multiple piceous markings and mesothorax with piceous completely outlining the submedian sigillae, the triangulate posterior opercular margin, the piceous, primary fore femoral spine is angled more than the remaining femoral spines, and the pygofer basal lobe appendage that terminates in two thin extensions found in C. urostridulens . The large opercula easily distinguish C. carayoni from this species.

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported previously only from Morona-Santiago province, Ecuador (Sanborn 2013). Records for Cotopaxi and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces are provided below.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR: Cotopaxi, San / Francisco de las Pampas / Otonga , 2000 m 30–31 / July 1993 Elicio Tapia / Giovanni Onore, C. Young ” three males ( CMNH), two males ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Morona- San- / tiago. Rio Culebrillas / 34 km SE Gualaceo / 2200m, 22–23 Oct 19887 // J. Rawlins, C. Young / R. Davidson. / Wet forest .” 13 males ( CMNH), three males ( AFSC); “Ecuador: Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe / Estacion Cientifica San Francisco, / circa Sabanilla, Estacion / XII 1999 1840 mN.N. / leg. Dirk Berger ” two males ( ZMHB), one male ( AFSC) .