Cameraria Chapman 1902
Creators: name: Prins, Jurate De
name: Kawahara, Akito Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gracillariidae
Cameraria

description: Key to the species groups of the Afrotropical Cameraria based on external characters
1. Forewing with blackish-fuscous markings only (Figs 25–27)...................................... hexalobina group
– Forewing with white and black markings................................................................... 2
2. Forewing with median fascia straight, slightly oblique or angulated, or interrupted and shaped as two strigulae opposite each other................................................................................................ 3
– Forewing with median fascia narrow and sinuate............................................................. 5
3. First fascia at 1/4 very narrow, curving, edged apically (Fig. 37)..................................... torridella group
– First fascia at 1/4 broader than white markings at 1/2 of forewing, straight, edged on both sides (Figs 33, 34). perodeaui group
5. Forewing with distinct edging of fasciae, with black scales arranged in rows (Figs 35, 36).................. sokoke group
– Forewing with indistinct edging of fasciae with mottled black scales following apically white fasciae, black scales not arranged in rows (Figs 28–32)......................................................................... landryi group
Key to the species groups of the Afrotropical Cameraria based on male genitalia*
1. Tegumen with very small (visible at 150× enlargement), asymmetrically protruded tuba analis, transtilla H-shaped with long proximal appendages (Fig. 167).............................................................. torridella group
– Tegumen symmetrical, with tuba analis not protruded, transtilla narrow ring shaped or incomplete..................... 2
2. Sternum VIII very deeply emarginated (Fig. 152)............................................... hexalobina group
– Sternum VIII with attenuating or rounded caudal part......................................................... 4
3. Tegumen with a pair of apical extended socii (or horn-like appendages), cucullus of valva gradually or abruptly dilated (Figs 162, 165).................................................................................. sokoke group
– Tegumen without extended apical appendages, valva equally narrow along its entire length or slightly tapering apically (Figs 154, 157, 160).............................................................................. landryi group
* Male of C. perodeaui is unknown.
Key to the species groups of the Afrotropical Cameraria based on female genitalia*
1. Ostium bursae opening in the middle of segment VII; ductus bursae anteriad antrum not crossed by a sclerotized plate, with distinct anastomosis to corpus bursae, corpus bursae globular, with oval signum area crossed by slender sclerotized ridge (Figs 303, 304)................................................................................ torridella group
– Ostium bursae opening at (sub)posterior margin of segment VII................................................. 3
3. Corpus bursae without signum (Fig. 302)....................................................... perodeaui group
– Corpus bursae with signum.............................................................................. 4
4. Two signa areas on corpus bursae; ostium bursae opening at level of the sclerotized posterior extention of segment VII (Fig. 297)................................................................................... hexalobina group
– One signum area on corpus bursae; ostium bursae opening at depth of the sclerotized posterior emargination of segment VII (Figs 298–300)............................................................................. landryi group
* females of C. sokoke and C. zaira unknown.
description: Published as part of Prins, Jurate De & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2012, Systematics, revisionary taxonomy, and biodiversity of Afrotropical Lithocolletinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), pp. 1-283 in Zootaxa 3594 (1) on pages 39-40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3594.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6052126