Carlota Arias-Bohart, 2014, revalidated status

(Figures 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11)

The genus Carlota (Fig. 1) exhibits the following characters: antennae strongly serrate from antennomere 3 through 10, with stout shape like a tea-cup; antennomere 2 subcircular and about 0.6 times the length of antennomere 3, antennomere 3 about 0.5 times the length of antennomere 4, antennomere 4 and 5 about as long as wide (Fig. 3). Pronotum subquadrate with four distinct subcircular depressions; posterior pronotal angles short, acute and divergent (Fig. 5). Antennal grooves short, shallow and incipient (Fig. 7, 9). Prosternal process strongly narrowed between procoxae, straight and somewhat inclined, not bent dorsally (Fig. 7, 9, 11). Mesoventral cavity oval, mesanepisternum forming part of mesoventral cavity; mesoventral process pointed, not lobate; mesocoxal cavity diameter about 3 times mesocoxal distance (Fig. 7, 9). Wing venation with R cell short, MP3+4 bent towards MP1+2, not branching towards MP4+CuA1.

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