Camerunia Aurivillius 1893
Authors/Creators
- 1. African Natural History Research Trust, Street Court, Leominster, HR 6 9 QA, UK.
Description
Identification key to the species of Camerunia Aurivillius, 1893
1. Forewing with dark basal marking ................................................................................................... 2
– Forewing without dark basal marking .............................................................................................. 3
2. Forewing discal marking as wide as cell. Dark spot along forewing postmedial fasciae in space CuA1 diffuse. Hindwing fringe brown with white markings at the termination of veins. Large species found in West and Central Africa ......................................................................... C. orphne (Schaus, 1893)
– Forewing discal marking indicated by two or three spots. Dark spot along forewing postmedial fasciae in space CuA1 well defined. Hindwing fringe uniformly pale yellow. Small species endemic to Tanzania .............................................................................................................. C. smithi sp. nov.
3. Ground colour of hindwings yellow ................................................................................................. 4
– Ground colour of hindwings not yellow ........................................................................................... 5
4. Forewing with large discal marking ................................. C. bimaculata (Dewitz, 1879) comb. rev.
– Forewing without discal marking .............................................................. C. flava Aurivillius, 1904
5. Ground colour of hindwings white .......................................................... C. albida Aurivillius, 1901
– Ground colour of hindwings pink .................................. C. subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893) comb. nov.
Genus composition
Camerunia orphne (Schaus, 1893) = Camerunia insignis Aurivillius, 1893
Camerunia flava Aurivillius, 1904 = Camerunia lactiflora Wichgraf, 1914
Camerunia albida Aurivillius, 1901
Camerunia smithi sp. nov.
Camerunia bimaculata (Dewitz, 1879) comb. rev.
Camerunia subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893) comb. nov. = Hemijana ruberrima Rothschild, 1917
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Aurivillius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Eupterotidae
- Genus
- Camerunia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Camerunia Aurivillius, 1893 sec. Takano, 2025
References
- Aurivillius C. 1893. Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika. Entomologisk Tidskrift 14 (3): 199-214.
- Schaus W. 1893. In: Schaus W. & Clements W. G. (eds) On a Collection of Sierra Leone Lepidoptera: 1-46. R. H. Porter, London. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.59773
- Dewitz H. 1879. Afrikanische Schmetterlinge. Mittheilungen des Munchener Entomologischen Vereins 3: 23-35.
- Aurivillius C. 1904. New species of African Striphnopterygidae, Notodontidae and Chrysopolomidae in the British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (4): 695-700. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1904.tb02759.x
- Wichgraf F. 1914. Neues aus der afrikanischen Lepidopteren-Fauna. (Fortsetzung). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 58 (3): 392-396.
- Rothschild L. W. 1917. Some new moths of the families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae. Novitates Zoologicae 24 (3): 475-492. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.23155