Carineta indecora ( Walker, 1858b )

Sanborn, Allen F., 2018, The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Panama including the description of six new species, three new combinations, one new synonymy, and nine new records, Zootaxa 4493 (1), pp. 1-69 : 41

Carineta indecora ( Walker, 1858b)

Cicada indecora Walker 1858b: 18 . (Bogota, Colombia)

Remarks. Another of the small Carineta species in Panama. The hyaline wings, green head and thorax marked extensively with piceous and a castaneous abdomen with transverse piceous bands anteriorly and green posterior tergites and a piceous longitudinal stripe on the medial abdominal sternites can distinguish it.

Distribution. The species has been recorded from Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama ( Metcalf 1963c; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Sanborn 2013; 2014). The species was collected at Corriente Grande, Province of Bocas del Toro at 100m altitude in the forest along the Changuinola River, and at Boquete, Province of Chiriquí, at 1350 m altitude in remnant forest habitat ( Wolda & Ramos 1992) in Panama.

Material examined. “PANAMA: Veraguas Prov. / Alto Piedra, 5 km NW / Santa Fe , 800 m elev. / VI 11–14 2016, N.J. Smith ” one male ( UCDC) ; “ PANAMA: Panama Prov. / 15 km. N El Llano / mv + bl, 13 May 1991 / R. Turnbow ” one male ( FSCA) .