Carineta maculosa Torres, 1948

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 : 56

Carineta maculosa Torres, 1948

Carineta maculosa Torres 1948: 114 . (Villa Nougués, Tucumán, Argentina)

REMARKS.—Another of the large species of Carineta heavily marked with piceous and a spot of infuscation on the apex of the hind wing anal cell 2. It can be distinguished quickly from C. centralis , C. producta and C. trivittata by the spot of infuscation on the mediocubital crossvein in the hind wing of these species. Carineta basalis can be distinguished by the piceous fascia on the dorsal pronotal midline, the hyaline fore wings and the large male opercula and both C. crumena and C. pilifera can be distinguished by the infuscation on the fore wing radial and radiomedial crossveins. Carineta detoulgoueti , C. porioni , C. postica and C. tracta can all be distinguished by the longitudinal infuscation in the fore wing apical cells not found in C. maculosa . Finally, C. ventralis can be distinguished by fore wing radial crossvein and radiomedial crossvein being almost perpendicular to the radius anterior 2, radius posterior and median veins.

DISTRIBUTION.—The revised species concept has been reported from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2011b; 2013; 2018c; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The first records for Bolivia were recently added ( Sanborn 2019b). The species has been recorded from Zaruma, El Oro province, Chimbo and Balzapamba, Bolívar province, and Chaguarapata, Chimborazo province (as C. bilineosa a junior synonym of C. fasciculata ) and from Santa Inéz, Pichincha province (as C. fasciculata ) ( Jacobi 1907a; Goding 1925). Berger (2001) reported specimens (as both C. fasciculata and C. maculosa ) from the Estacion Cientifica San Francisco, Zamora-Chinchipe Province.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.— “ ECUADOR: Pichincha / 27 91km W Machachi / Mirador de Tandapi / 16.vi.2005 / P. Lenhart PL03084 // S 00º 25’59.5” / W 78º 48’ 27.8” 2024m / cloud forest, open pastures and forest ” one male ( UDCC) ; “ Ecuador: Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe / Estacion Cientifica San Francisco , / circa Sabanilla, camino al / canal x Quebrada 4 / 20.XI.1999 1900 mN.N. / leg. Dirk Berger ” one female ( ZMHB) , one female ( AFSC).