Review of the noctuid stemborer genusSciomesa(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Apameini: Sesamiina): taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology, with the description of 12 new species

作     者：Bruno Le Ru Noémie M.-C. Hévin Claire Capdevielle-Dulac Boaz K. Musyoka Desmond Conlong Johnnie Van Den Berg Rose Ndemah Philippe Le Gall Casper Nyamukondiwa Beatrice Pallangyo Mohamedi Njaku Muluken Goftishu Yoseph Assefa Adugna Haile Gilson Chipapika George Ong’amo Anne-Laure Clamens Jérôme Barbut Gael J. Kergoat 

作者机构：a Unité de Recherche UMR 247 African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) PO Box 30772-00100 Nairobi Kenyab IRD CNRS Universit. Paris-Saclay UMR Évolution Génome Comportement et Écologie (EGCE) Av. de la Terrasse Gif-sur-Yvette91198 France c Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier CNRS IRD EPHE Université de Montpellier Montpellier34095 France b IRD CNRS Universit. Paris-Saclay UMR Évolution Génome Comportement et Écologie (EGCE) Av. de la Terrasse Gif-sur-Yvette91198 France a Unité de Recherche UMR 247 African Insect Science for Food and Health (icipe) PO Box 30772-00100 Nairobi Kenya d South African Sugarcane Research Institute Private Bag X02 Mount Edgecombe4300 Republic of South Africae School of Biological and Conservation Sciences University of Kwazulu-Natal Private Bag X01 Scottsville Pietermaritzburg Republic of South Africa f School of Environmental Sciences and Development North West University (Potchefstroom Campus) Private Bag X6001 Potchefstroom2520 Republic of South Africa g International Institute of Tropical Agriculture PO Box 2008 Messa Yaoundé Cameroon h Department of Biology and Biotechnological Sciences Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) Private Bag 16 Palapye Botswana i Biocontrol Program PO Box 30031 Kibaha Tanzania j School of Plant Sciences Haramaya University PO Box 138 Diredawa Ethiopia k Department of Crop Protection University of Eswatani Kwaluseni Swaziland l Hamelmalo Agricultural College Department of Plant Protection Keren Eritrea m Zambia Agriculture Research Institute Mount Maluku Central Research Station PO Box 8 Chilanga Zambia n School of Biological Science College of Physical and Biological Sciences (Chiromo Campus) University of Nairobi PO Box 30197 Nairobi Kenya o CBGP INRAE IRD CIRAD Institut Agro University Montpellier Montpellier France p Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Direction générale déléguée aux Collections Ensemble Arthropodes terrestres C.P. 50 57 rue Cuvier 75231 Pariscedex 05 France 

出 版 物：《Annales de la Société entomologique de France》 

年 卷 期：2025年第61卷第3期

主　　题：integrative taxonomy molecular phylogenetics molecular species delimitation morphology taxonomy 

摘      要：SummaryThe genusSciomesaTams & Bowden (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae: Apameini: Sesamiina) is a predominantly Afrotropical group of stemborer moths whose convoluted taxonomic history needs to be clarified. In this study, a comprehensive examination of specimens in collections was carried out in a complementary manner with molecular analyses, resulting in the following changes: (i) 12 newSciomesaspecies are described:S. lalokelin. ***. metiminkon. *** Ethiopia;S. elgonensisn. sp.,S. nigran. ***. similliman. *** Kenya;S. umvotin. *** South Africa;S. iboyan. sp.,S. lilomwin. sp.,S. maketen. sp.,S. njomben. ***. tanganyikan. *** Tanzania;S. kalinzun. *** Uganda; (ii) four species are reinstated as valid species: three of them,S. constantiniLaportestat. rev.,S. etchecopariLaportestat. ***. mirificaLaportestat. rev., were previously synonymized withS. mesophaea(Hampson) whileS. congitae(Laporte)stat. *** previously synonymized withS. boulardi(Laporte); (iii) two species are synonymized:S. minuscula(Laporte)n. syn., which was previously synonymized withS. boulardi, is a synonym ofS. congitae, andS. franciscaeLaporten. *** a synonym ofS. mesophaea; (iv) one species,Sesamia punctipennisKrügerstat. rev., which was transferred to theSciomesagenus, is removed from the genusSciomesaand temporarily reinstated to the genusSesamiaGuenée pending a new combination. A supplemental description for 12 previously described species is also provided:S. boulardi,S. buaMoyal et al.,S. constantini,S. etchecopari,S. excelsa(Laporte),S. gnosiaMoyal et al.,S. mesophaea,S. congitae,S. mirifica,S. renibifidaBerio,S. scotochroa(Hampson) andS. venataFletcher. Host-plant records are provided for 10Sciomesaspecies, confirming a pattern of phylogenetic niche conservatism on Poales plants in the Cyperaceae family. Phylogenetic and molecular species delimitation analyses were carried out on a multimarker (four mitochondrial and two nuclear genes) molecular