Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

SANBORN, ALLEN F, 2020, Eight new species and three new records of Neotropical cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Venezuela, Journal of Insect Biodiversity 16 (1), pp. 6-37 : 24

Genus Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843

Carineta Amyot & Audinet-Serville 1843: 482 .

Type species. Cicada formosa Germar 1830: 45 . (Brazil)

Remarks. Distant (1906) described the distinguishing features of the genus as 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 the fore wing width that is about one-third the fore wing length. The genus is in need of a comprehensive review as it is very diverse and a large number of species continue to be added (e.g. Sanborn 2019a; 2019b).

Distribution. The genus is the most speciose of the New World ( Sanborn 2017b, 2019a; 2019b; 2020) with species being reported across the Neotropical region. Individual references to species in 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 have been published ( Metcalf 1963b; Duffels & van der Laan 1985; Dorval et al. 2011; Sanborn 2011 a, 2011b, 2013, 2014, 2017 b, 2018, 2019a; 2019b; 2020; Sanborn & Heath 2014; Dias et al. 2018; Maccagnan et al. 2018).