''Camaegeria sophax'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

of the family

Sesiidae The Sesiidae or clearwing moths are a diurnality, diurnal moth family (biology), family in the order Lepidoptera known for their Batesian mimicry in both appearance and behaviour of various Hymenoptera. The family consists of 165 genus, genera ...

first described by

Herbert Druce Herbert Druce, Linnean Society, FLS (14 July 1846 in London – 11 April 1913 in London) was an English entomologist. His collections were acquired by Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), Osbert Salvin (1835–1898), and James John Joicey (187 ...

in 1899. It is known from

Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

Mozambique Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Afr ...

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

and

Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...

References

*Druce, H. (1899). "Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Fam. Aegeriidae". ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. (7) 4 (21): 200–205. *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. Sesiidae Moths described in 1899 Lepidoptera of Uganda Lepidoptera of Mozambique Lepidoptera of Malawi Lepidoptera of Zimbabwe Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa {{Sesiidae-stub