Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

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 : 45

Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 .

TYPE SPECIES.— Cicada formosa Germar 1830: 45 . ( Brazil)

REMARKS.—A head that is narrower than the mesonotum, a frons that is as long as or slightly longer than the vertex, a pronotum that is considerably shorter than the mesonotum, and a fore wing width that is about one-third the fore wing length are characteristic of Carineta species ( Distant 1906a). It is the New World genus with the greatest known alpha diversity that continues to increase with recent studies ( Sanborn 2017b; 2018c; 2019b, c; 2020a, b).

DISTRIBUTION.—The genus is the most speciose in the New World with species being reported from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the West Indies ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011a, b; 2013; 2014a; 2017b; 2018c; 2019b, c; 2020a, b; Sanborn & Heath 2014).