Camaegeria massai, Bartsch, Daniel & Berg, Jutta, 2012

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 : 33-35

Camaegeria massai n. sp.

Figs. 13–15 , 33 , 40

Holotype ♀ ( Figs. 14–15 ): Tanganjika, Kilimandjaro, Marangu, 1500 m, 15.Oct.1952, leg. Lindemann & Pavlitzki ( ZSSM).

Paratypes (7): 1 3 ( Figs. 13 , 33 ), id. (in copula with holotype specimen) ( ZSSM) (GU-Bartsch 2006–03) ( Fig. 33 ); 6 ♀, Nairobi, November 1959, R. Carcasson ( NMKN) (GU-Bartsch 2009–19) ( Fig. 40 ).

Etymology. Named after the Massai people of Tanzania and Kenya, to be treated as a noun in apposition.

Description. Alar expanse 19–27 mm, forewing 8.1–11.5 mm. Antenna 6.5–10.0 mm, body length 9.0–11.5 mm. Head with labial palp brown-black, first palpomere ventrally and second mesally white; frons dark grey, white adjacent to the eye; vertex glossy black; pericephalic scales black, laterally white; antenna black, ventrally dark brown. Thorax and abdomen brown-black; mesothorax laterally orange-red; inner border of tegula, metathorax dorsally, and first tergite red, all tergites with narrow red posterior margin; segment 8 dorsally red, ventrally black with black lateral scale tufts; sternites black; outer surface of valva brownish-grey. Legs black; forecoxa laterally white; tarsus of all legs ventrally grey, distally with some white scales; mid- and hindtibia dorso-medially and distally with some white scales; spurs dorsally white, ventrally black. Wings hyaline, discal spots, veins and margins black; forewing base proximally black, distally red. Female similar to male, somewhat larger; red posterior margin of tergites more prominent.

Diagnosis. Camaegeria massai differs from its congeners by having a red inner border of the tegula and the red anterior margin of the tergites. A very similar pattern but with orange-brown instead of red is found in Synanthedon flavipectus ( Hampson, 1910) . This species differs further by its narrow apical area, somewhat inwards angled discal spot and rough-scaled legs. The genitalia are very similar to those of C. auripicta . The male differs by having a more oval valva and a short, distal tooth on the exophallus, and the female by having a somewhat shorter signum on the corpus bursae.

Figures

FIGURES 33. Camaegeria massai n. sp. male genitalia.

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).

FIGURES 40 – 41. Female genitalia. 40. Camaegeria massai n. sp. 41. Episannina perlucida (Le Cerf, 1911).