Camaegeria exochiformis Walker, 1856 n

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 : 33

Camaegeria exochiformis Walker, 1856 n . comb.

Fig. 10

Aegeria exochiformis Walker, 1856: 58 . Holotype Ƥ ( Fig. 10 ): Sierra Leone (BMNH).

Hampson 1919: 62 ( Synanthedon ); Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 23 ( Synanthedon ); Gaede 1929: 522 ( Synanthedon ); Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 31 ( Synanthedon ); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 28 ( Synanthedon ).

Remarks. The holotype of Aegeria exochiformis is a badly damaged and nearly completely de-scaled female and not a male as mentioned in the original description. It is here transferred to Camaegeria based on the typical shape of body and wings, the smooth-scaled labial palp and the frons with white adjacent to the eye. Another taxon from Sierra Leone, C. monogama , might be conspecific with C. exochiformis (see above).

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).