New species and review of the Afrotropical clearwing moth genus Camaegeria Strand, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Synanthedonini)
Author
Bartsch, Daniel
Author
Berg, Jutta
text
Zootaxa
2012
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28
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.212257
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Camaegeria massai
n. sp.
Figs. 13–15
,
33
,
40
Holotype
♀ (
Figs. 14–15
): Tanganjika, Kilimandjaro, Marangu,
1500 m
,
15.Oct.1952
, leg. Lindemann & Pavlitzki (
ZSSM
).
Paratypes
(7): 1 3 (
Figs. 13
,
33
), id. (in copula with
holotype
specimen) (
ZSSM
) (GU-Bartsch 2006–03) (
Fig. 33
); 6 ♀, Nairobi,
November 1959
, R. Carcasson (
NMKN
) (GU-Bartsch
2009–19
) (
Fig. 40
).
Etymology.
Named after the
Massai
people of
Tanzania
and
Kenya
, to be treated as a noun in apposition.
Description.
Alar expanse
19–27 mm
, forewing 8.1–11.5 mm. Antenna 6.5–10.0 mm, body length 9.0–11.5 mm. Head with labial palp brown-black, first palpomere ventrally and second mesally white; frons dark grey, white adjacent to the eye; vertex glossy black; pericephalic scales black, laterally white; antenna black, ventrally dark brown. Thorax and abdomen brown-black; mesothorax laterally orange-red; inner border of tegula, metathorax dorsally, and first tergite red, all tergites with narrow red posterior margin; segment 8 dorsally red, ventrally black with black lateral scale tufts; sternites black; outer surface of valva brownish-grey. Legs black; forecoxa laterally white; tarsus of all legs ventrally grey, distally with some white scales; mid- and hindtibia dorso-medially and distally with some white scales; spurs dorsally white, ventrally black. Wings hyaline, discal spots, veins and margins black; forewing base proximally black, distally red. Female similar to male, somewhat larger; red posterior margin of tergites more prominent.
FIGURES 13–24.
Specimens of
Camaegeria
Strand, 1914
. Scale bar: 10 mm. 13–15.
C. massai
n. sp.
: 3 paratype (13); Ƥ holotype, upperside (14), underside (15). 16–17.
C. polytelis
n. sp.
, 3 holotype, upperside (16), underside (17). 18–19.
C. sylvestralis
(Viette, [1955]), 3 holotype, upperside (20), underside (21). 20–21.
C. xanthomos
n. sp.
, 3 holotype, upperside (22), underside (23). 22–24.
C. xanthopimplaeformis
(Viette, [1955]), (22) 3, Madagascar, vic. Perinet; (23–24) Ƥ holotype, upperside (29), underside (30).
Diagnosis.
Camaegeria massai
differs from its congeners by having a red inner border of the tegula and the red anterior margin of the tergites. A very similar pattern but with orange-brown instead of red is found in
Synanthedon flavipectus
(
Hampson, 1910
)
. This species differs further by its narrow apical area, somewhat inwards angled discal spot and rough-scaled legs. The genitalia are very similar to those of
C. auripicta
. The male differs by having a more oval valva and a short, distal tooth on the exophallus, and the female by having a somewhat shorter signum on the corpus bursae.