Carineta imperfecta 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 : 55

Carineta imperfecta Boulard, 1986b

Carineta imperfecta Boulard 1986b: 194 . (“Tinlandia”, 16 km East of Santo Domingo de los Colorados, 700 m, Pichincha, Santo Domingo Province , Ecuador)

REMARKS.— Boulard (1986b) noted the similarity of C. imperfecta to C. peruviana with the description of the species. Carineta imperfecta can be distinguished by the head being slightly narrower than the mesonotum, the lateral pronotum not reducing anteriorly as much due to the larger head, the rostrum reaching the anterior of the posterior coxae, the mesonotum with only minor markings, the lack of linear infuscation in the fore wing apical cells, and the slightly wider opercula found in C. imperfecta .

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province, Ecuador (Sanborn 2013).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR: Pichincha / Prov., Tinlandia, E. / Alluriquin / 4–8–V–1976 / 700 m. elev. // netted / T. E. Rogers ” one male ( AFSC); “ ECUADOR: Pichincha / Prov., Tinlandia, / 10–17–VII–1980 / Howard V. Weems, Jr.” one male ( AFSC); “ Rio Palenque , Ecuador / Los Rios Prov. – J. Longino / 23–VI–74 // 349” one male ( AFSC) .