Camaegeria aristura ( Meyrick, 1931 ) Meyrick, 1931

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 : 30-31

Camaegeria aristura ( Meyrick, 1931) n. comb.

Figs. 1–4

Tipulomima [sic!] aristura Meyrick, 1931: 49 . Holotype 3 ( Fig. 1 ): Uganda, Kampala, 4.Jul.1930, H. Hargreaves leg. (BMNH).

Aegeria leptomorpha Meyrick, 1931: 50 n. syn. Holotype 3 ( Fig. 2 ): Uganda, Kampala, 27.Mar.1930, H. Hargreaves leg. (BMNH).

Aegeria hadassa Meyrick, 1932: 336 n. syn. 2 Syntypes: 1 Ƥ ( Fig. 3 ): 27.Apr.1932, 1 3 ( Fig. 4 ), 20.Apr.1932, Uganda, Kampala, leg. (BMNH).

Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 31 ( Synanthedon ), 41 ( Tipulamima ), Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 28 ( Synanthedon ), 33 ( Tipulamima ).

Diagnosis. Camaegeria aristura is one of four very similar species in this genus from the African mainland, together with C. auripicta , C. monogama and C. sophax ). This group of species is black, with the thorax laterally and dorsally, as well as tergites 1–2 and the tip of the abdomen having orange-red scales. Camaegeria aristura differs from C. monogama by the lack of an abdominal cingulum (present on tergite 4 in C. monogama ), from C. sophax by the completely black rather than partly red forewings, metathorax and tergites 1–3, and further from both species by a diffuse orange-red, dorso-medial stripe on the mesothorax. In C. auripicta this stripe is much more distinct and longer, extending to prothorax and tergite 1. The genitalia structures of C. aristura are unknown.

Remarks. The types of the two taxa synonymised herein were collected by H. Hargreaves in Uganda, Kampala within two years ( Meyrick 1931, 1932). These specimens are extremely similar and they are considered conspecific. In his original description Meyrick (1932) confused the sex of the two syntypes of Aegeria hadassa : the specimen from 27.Apr.1932 is a female, and the one from 20.Apr.1932 a male.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 12. Specimens of Camaegeria Strand, 1914. Scale bar: 10 mm. 1 – 4. C. aristura (Meyrick, 1931): 3 holotype (1); 3, holotype of Aegeria leptomorpha Meyrick, 1931 (2); 3, syntype of Aegeria hadassa Meyrick, 1932 (3); Ƥ, syntype of A. hadassa Meyrick, 1932 (4). 5 – 7. C. auripicta Strand, 1914: Ƥ holotype upperside (5), underside (6); 3, Cameroon, Basho (7). 8 – 9. C. monogama (Meyrick, 1932): Ƥ holotype (8), Ƥ, holotype of Macrotarsipus lioscelis Meyrick, 1935 (9). 10. C. exochiformis (Walker, 1856), Ƥ holotype. 11 – 12. C. sophax (Druce, 1899), Ƥ holotype, upperside (11), lateral view (12).