Camaegeria monogama ( Meyrick, 1932 ) Meyrick, 1932

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 monogama ( Meyrick, 1932) n. comb.

Figs. 8–9

Aegeria monogama Meyrick, 1932: 337 : Holotype Ƥ ( Fig. 8 ): Sierra Leone, Njala, November E. Hargreaves leg. (BMNH). Macrotarsipus lioscelis Meyrick, 1935 n . syn. Holotype Ƥ ( Fig. 9 ): Sierra Leone, Njala, 7.May.1934. E. Hargreaves leg. (BMNH).

Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 32 ( Synanthedon ), 43 ( Macrotarsipus ); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 28 ( Synanthedon ), 34 ( Macrotarsipus ).

Diagnosis. See Camaegeria aristura .

Remarks. The type specimens of Aegeria monogama and Macrotarsipus lioscelis cannot be distinguished based on external characters and have been collected by the same collector from the same collecting locality, Njala, Sierra Leone. It still seems possible that Camaegeria monogama represents a junior synonym of C. exochiformis , which is also native to Sierra Leone. This decision is left open due to the deplorable condition of the only known specimen of C. exochiformis . The genitalia structures of C. monogama have not been dissected.

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).