Camaegeria sylvestralis

Bartsch, Daniel & Berg, Jutta, 2012, New species and review of the Afrotropical clearwing moth genus Camaegeria Strand, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae: Synanthedonini), Zootaxa 3181, pp. 28-46 : 36

Camaegeria sylvestralis ( Viette, [1955]) n. comb.

Figs. 18–19

Lepidopoda sylvestralis Viette, 1955 [imprint “1954”]: 89. Holotype 3 (figs. 18–19): Madagascar est, foret du domaine de l´Est, Rogez, Mai 1936 (MNHP).

Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 40 ( Lepidopoda ); Viette 1982: 24 ( Tipulamima ); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 33 ( Tipulamima ).

Diagnosis. This species is similar to Camaegeria polytelis and C. xanthomos , but easy to distinguish by the dorsally completely red abdomen (abdomen dorsally black, with tergites 1–2 and 4–5 red in C. polytelis and only 4–5 red in C. xanthomos ). Further, C. sylvestralis has a ventrally black labial palp (yellow in the species compared), black hindtarsus with smooth-scaled first tarsomere (red and rough-scaled in the species compared), and the narrowest wing margins and discal spots of all congeners. C. sylvestralis is only known from a single male, its genitalia have not been dissected.

Figures

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).