Carineta quinimaculata, Sanborn, 2011

Sanborn, Allen F., 2011, Checklist of the cicadas of French Guiana including new records and the description of nine new species (Insecta, Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae), Zoosystema 33 (3), pp. 377-418 : 399-400

Carineta quinimaculata n. sp.

( Fig. 5 ; Table 5)

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: “ FRENCH GUIANA: 1 km S / Amazon Nature Lodge , 30 / km SE Roura on Kaw Rd., / 3-4-VI-2005, J. E. Eger / & M.T. Messenger, coll. // N04°32.961’ / W052°12.830’ / 288 m MV Light”, 1 ♂ ( FSCA).

Paratypes: “ FRENCH GUIANA: 41 / km SE Roura on Kaw Rd., / 5-7-VI-2005, J. E. Eger/ & M. T. Messenger, coll. // N04°32.214’ / W052°07.420’ / 272 m MV Light”, 1 ♂ ( AFSC), 1 ♂ ( MNHN ( EH)16225). — “Fr. Guyana”, 1 ♂ ( AFSC).

ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named for the five spots on the mesothorax.

DISTRIBUTION. — The species is only known from French Guiana.

DIAGNOSIS. — The new species can be differentiated from other Carineta by the five spots and their arrangement on the mesothorax.

DESCRIPTION

Ground color greenish ochraceous with ochraceous abdomen. Head and thorax may have faded to ochraceous from green with age or chemical exposure when captured in the mercury vapor light trap.

Head slightly wider than mesonotum dark ochraceous with crescent shaped tawny marks along medial margin of lateral ocelli. Dorsum covered with long, dense pile, castaneous at base and fuscous distally. Long golden and short silvery pile posterior to eye. Ventral head ground color. Postclypeus with nine transverse grooves, long castaneous and fuscous pile on lateral half, short silvery pile on lateral margin. Long castaneous and fuscous pile on lorum, gena, and anteclypeus. Rostrum with piceous tip reaching to middle trochanters. Scape and proximal pedicel ground color, distal pedicel and antennal flagella testaceous.

Dorsal thorax greenish ochraceous. Piceous marks at median terminus of paramedian and lateral fissures, variable in size in paratypes. Pronotum covered in long golden pile, more dense laterally. Lateral pronotal collar absent. Mesonotum greenish ochraceous with fuscous spots on anterior midline, posterior submedian sigillae, and scutal depressions. Short golden pile on dorsum, long silvery pile laterally. Metanotum greenish ochraceous with long silvery pile laterally. Venter ground color with long golden and short silvery pile.

Tegmina and wings hyaline. Venation ground color, becoming testaceous distally, except testaceous anal vein 2 + 3. Basal membrane greenish with white area on anterior base. Hind wing venation greenish except testaceous ambient vein. Distal anal vein 2, anal vein 1 cubitus posterior and cubitus anterior 2 testaceous in paratype. Vanal fold, anal cell 3 and anal cell 2 along anal veins 2 and 3 green.

Legs ground color with testaceous distal tibia and tarsi. Fore femora with proximal spine oblique, secondary and tertiary spine upright and very small apical spine. Spines testaceous marked with fuscous along anterior margin, primary spine largest, secondary and tertiary spines of similar size. Tibial spurs and comb castaneous. Pretarsal claws with piceous tips.

Male operculum with sharply rounded posterolateral margin, posterior margin straight to rounded medial margin, reaching past middle of tympanal cavity. Medial margin extending to median junction of hind coxa and trochanter. Meracanthus ground color, robust, not reaching to anterior margin of operculum. Opercula covered with long golden pile which also radiates from margin.

Abdomen ochraceous becoming greenish ochraceous on posterior tergites 5 and 6, all of tergites 7 and 8 and sternites VII and VIII. All tergites and sternites ochraceous in paratypes.Abdomen covered with fine golden pile, long golden pile on sternite VIII. Timbal with three ribs.

Male pygofer greenish ochraceous with fuscous dorsal beak.Anal styles testaceous covered with short, golden pile. Median uncus lobe testaceous, short, circling anal styles, with radiating long thick pile. Pygofer upper lobe rounded, short. Basal lobe of pygofer small with long, thick radiating pile medially. Claspers testaceous, becoming darker apically, roughly square with ventral distal corner extended into thin point recurved into U-shape. Aedeagus testaceous with long theca.

Female is unknown.

Measurements: see Tables 5.

Figures

FIG. 5.— Carineta quinimaculata n. sp.: A, holotype ♂ habitus;B, holotype ♂ dorsum; C, holotype ♂ timbal; D, paratype ♂ operculum; E, holotype ♂ lateral view of genitalia; F, holotype ♂ posterior view of genitalia. Scale bars: A, 2 cm; B, 2 mm; C-F, 1 mm.