Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Sanborn, Allen F., 2019, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Bolivia including the descriptions of fifteen new species, the resurrection of one genus and two species, seven new combinations, six new synonymies, and twenty-eight new records, Zootaxa 4655 (1), pp. 1-104 : 54

Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 .

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

REMARKS. Species of Carineta are characterized by having a head that is narrower than the mesonotum, the frons is as long as or slightly longer than the vertex, a pronotum that is considerably shorter than the mesonotum, and the fore wing width is about one-third the fore wing length ( Distant 1906a). It is the New World genus with the greatest known alpha diversity ( Sanborn 2017b).

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; 2011b; 2013; 2014a; 2017b; 2018c; Sanborn & Heath 2014).