Carineta centralis Distant, 1892b

Sanborn, Allen F., 2020, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Peru including the description of twenty-four new species, three new synonymies, and thirty-seven new records, Zootaxa 4785 (1), pp. 1-129 : 64

Carineta centralis Distant, 1892b

Carineta centralis Distant 1892b: 321 . ( Ecuador)

REMARKS. Another species of Carineta with fore wing infuscation. The infuscation of C. centralis is present as a central fuscous spot near the distal hind wing radial cell combined with a series of linear spots in the fore wing margin, but is present on the apical cells of both fore wing and hind wings along with distal hind wing anal cell 3 in C. boliviana , on the distal cubital cell and clavus of the fore wing and on distal apical cell 3, distal anal cell 1 and wing margin of the hind wing in C. cearana , and present on the proximal wing bases in both fore wings and hind wings extending to the distal anal cell 3 through anal cell 1 in the hind wing of C. illustris . Carineta trivittata Walker, 1858b and C. producta Walker, 1858b also has a spot of infuscation on the hind wing distal radial cell but C. producta has infuscation on the fore wing crossveins and C. trivittata lacks the infuscation along the ambient vein and spots of infuscation in the distal apical cells 2–5 found. Carineta basalis can be distinguished by the piceous fascia on the dorsal pronotal midline, the hyaline fore wings and the large male opercula. Carineta pilifera can be distinguished by the infuscation on the fore wing radial and radiomedial crossveins.

DISTRIBUTION. The species has been reported from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru ( Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2019b). Jacobi (1907; 1951) reported the species from Callanga and Pachitea in Peru.