Cameraria hexalobina (Vari, 1961) Prins & Kawahara, 2012

Prins, Jurate De & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2012, Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), Zootaxa 3594 (1), pp. 1-283 : 40

The hexalobina group

The hexalobina group includes only one species, Cameraria hexalobina ( Vári, 1961) , n. comb., here transferred from Phyllonorycter . The forewing markings are brownish fuscous, and white scales are either absent or form a very narrow line. The larvae of C. hexalobina feed on Annonaceae and construct a large, oval, opaque, tentiform mine on the upper (adaxial) surface of the leaf.

Male genitalia have long, curved, very slender valvae; a narrow vinculum with a moderate saccus; and very large, deeply emargination caudally at sternum VIII.

Female genitalia of the hexalobina group have an ostium bursae that opens at the depth of the sclerotized posterior extention of segment VII, and a corpus bursae that possesses two signa areas: i) larger, oval, membranous, cranulated, and ii) smaller, oval, sclerotized signa area crossed by a fine median ridge.