Camaegeria xanthopimplaeformis

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Camaegeria xanthopimplaeformis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Sesiidae
Genus: Camaegeria
Species:
C. xanthopimplaeformis
Binomial name
Camaegeria xanthopimplaeformis
(Viette, 1955) [1]
Synonyms
  • Lepidopoda xanthopimplaeformisViette, 1955

Camaegeria xanthopimplaeformis is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from eastern Madagascar.

This species has a wingspan of 26 millimetres (1.0 in) with a length of the forewings of 12 mm (0.47 in). The forewings are hyaline with steel-blue reflects and the costal and marginal region blackish and bronze. [2] It can be distinguished by its yellow body. [3]

The holotype was collected by A.Seyrig North of Anivorano at the railroad Antananarivo-Toamasina.

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References

  1. ↑ Afro Moths
  2. ↑ Viette, 1955. Nouveaux Tineoidea (s.l.) de Madagascar. - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 123(1954):75–114. Fig.13
  3. ↑ Bartsch D. & Berg J., 2012. New Species and review of the Afrotropical clearwing moths genus Camaegeria Strand, 1914 (Lep.:Sesiidae: Synanthedonini). - Zootaxa 3181: 28-46 (2012), preview


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