Carineta fasciculata
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Carineta
Carineta fasciculata

description: Carineta fasciculata (Germar, 1821)
(Fig. 19)
Cicada fasciculata Germar 1821: 97. (São Paulo, Brazil)
Carineta limpida Torres 1948a: 121. (Puerto Bemberg, Misiones, Argentina and Cufré, San José Department, Uruguay) n. syn.
Carineta limpida China 1954: 589.
Clarineta (sic) limpida Ruffinelli 1970: 3.
Carineta limpida Sanborn & Heath 2014: 69.
REMARKS. As with many early species descriptions, the original description of C. fasciculata is abbreviated. Germar (1821) distinguishes his new species as being tawny, variegated above with black, rear of the thorax on both sides with little white bundles (fascicles), fore wing immaculate, hyaline becoming dark (Germar 1821). It is the white pile for which the species is named along with the different markings of Germar’s species that gives us the evidence that C. fasciculata and C. bilineosa are not the same species. In addition, C. fasciculata has a more stout body with many fewer piceous marks including the lack of a transverse piceous mark in the ambient fissure of the pronotum, a smaller head to mesothorax width (0.795 as measured from the image of the Germar specimen) rather than the body heavily marked with piceous, including the transverse piceous mark in the ambient fissure of the pronotum, with almost parallel sides and a head to mesothorax width ratio (0.983 as measured from the illustrated specimen) of C. bilineosa.
Further investigation has shown that the same characters used by Germar (1821) to distinguish his new species differentiate it from the new species described by Torres (1948a) except for one. Torres (1948a) actually described a junior synonym of C. fasciculata when he described his new species Carineta limpida n. syn. The image of the Germar specimen (http://zoomus.lviv.ua/en/germar_collection/) is very similar to what can be seen in the image of the holotype of C. limpida in Torres (1948a) and is almost identical to the much better image of the Torres allotype (the same sex as the Germar specimen) in Marino de Remes Lenicov et al. (2015, Fig. 3c). The specimen illustrated in Fig. 19 was collected near the type locality of Torres’ species. The description in Torres (1948a) for C. limpida n. syn. also matches the image of C. fasciculata with the small piceous markings in the prothoracic fissures, the markings surrounding the submedian sigillae, the marks on the lateroposterior lateral sigillae forming an incomplete mark around the lateral sigillae, anterior to the anterior arms of the cruciform elevation and posterior mesothorax, the bronzing in the apical fore wing, but most importantly the bundles of white pile on the lateral and posterior mesothorax forming the same “small fascicles” in both species. The description in Torres (1948a) can be used to describe the image of the Germar specimen for every character listed by Torres that can be seen in the image (all but the ventral surface). No other species of Carineta has these characteristics or distribution pattern of pile. Based on these similarities, Carineta limpida n. syn. is considered a junior synonym of C. fasciculata and the species are synonymized here.
DISTRIBUTION. Based on the revised concept of the species as outlined above, the species has been reported from Misiones Province, Argentina, the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina, Brazil and southern Uruguay (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013; Sanborn & Heath 2014). The species appears to be restricted to the coastal states, provinces and departments between the region north of the Río de la Plata of Uruguay and São Paulo, Brazil with an inland extension to Misiones Province Argentina. This distribution is also generally more southern and eastern than the distribution of C. bilineosa rev. stat. as outlined above with potential overlap in the northeastern range of C. fasciculata and the southeastern range of C. bilineosa rev. stat. The majority of references to C. fasciculata in Metcalf (1963c), all references in Duffels & van der Laan (1985), and all but one of the references in Sanborn (2013) are actually references to C. bilineosa rev. stat. and are included with the resurrection of the species above.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 4655 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4655.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3365845