Camaegeria sophax Druce 1899, n. comb.
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Camaegeria sophax (Druce, 1899) n. comb.
Figs. 11–12
Aegeria sophax Druce, 1899: 203. Holotype Ƥ (Figs. 11–12): E. Africa, Delagoa Bay [Mozambique, Baia de Maputo], Monteiro leg. (BMNH).
Hampson 1919: 57 (Tipulamima); Dalla Torre & Strand 1925: 6 (Tipulamima); Gaede 1929: 519 (Tipulamima); Heppner & Duckworth 1981: 41 (Tipulamima); Vari, Kroon & Krüger 2002: 67 (Tipulamima); Pühringer & Kallies 2004: 33 (Tipulamima).
Diagnosis. This species has distinct sexual dimorphism. The male is well characterised by intensive red colour of the mesothorax laterally, metathorax and tergites 1–3, forewing base and the tip of the abdomen. In similar congeners at least one of these segments is black. The female is uniformly black with intensive green-metallic gloss, except for the red forewing base. The genitalia have not been dissected. See also Camaegeria aristura.
Further specimens examined: 1 ♀, Durban, 9.Jan.1918; 1 ♀, Bulawayo, 18.Dec.1924 (TMBS).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Druce
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Sesiidae
- Genus
- Camaegeria
- Species
- sophax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Camaegeria sophax (Druce, 1899) sec. Bartsch & Berg, 2012
References
- Druce, M. (1899) Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera. Fam. Aegeriidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 7 (4), 201 - 205.
- Hampson, G. F. (1919) A classification of the Aegeriadae of the Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. Novitates Zoologicae, 26 (1), 46 - 119.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. & Strand, E. (1925) Aegeriidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus Vol. 31, W. Junk, Berlin, 202 pp.
- Gaede, M. (1929) 22. Familie: Aegeriidae (Sesiidae). In Seitz, A. (ed.), Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Vol. 14. Die afrikanischen Spinner und Schwarmer. A. Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 515 - 538, pl. 77.
- Heppner, J. B. & Duckworth, W. D. (1981) Classification of the Superfamily Sesioidea (Lepidoptera, Ditrysia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 314, 1 - 144.
- Vari, L., Kroon, D. M. & Kruger, M. (2002) Classification and Checklist of the species of Lepidoptera recorded in Southern Afrika. Simple Solutions Australia, Chatswood, Australia, 384 pp.
- Puhringer, F. & Kallies, A. (2004) Provisional checklist of the Sesiidae of the world (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Salzkammergut, 4, 1 - 85.