Volume 24: 57–68 METAMORPHOSIS ISSN 1018–6490 (PRINT) LEPIDOPTERISTS’ SOCIETY OF AFRICA ISSN 2307–5031 (ONLINE) Publications on Afrotropical Lepidoptera during 2013 Published online: 31 December 2013 Mark C. Williams University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. E-mail : [email protected] Copyright © Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa Abstract: The articles published during 2013 which deal with scientific research into Afrotropical Lepidoptera are listed alphabetically by author and abstracts are provided if they were published. Articles dealing with control of Lepidoptera as pests are excluded. Citation: Williams, M.C. 2013. Publications on Afrotropical Lepidoptera during 2013. Metamorphosis 24: 57–68. AFROTROPICAL LEPIDOPTERA in the western Congo Basin and southern Tanzania/Mozambique. Main conclusions. Sampling effort is highly biased and controlling for it in large-scale BALLESTEROS-MEJIA, L., KITCHING, I.J., compilations of presence-only data is critical for drawing JETZ, W., NAGEL, P. & BECK J. 2013. inferences from our still limited knowledge of Mapping the biodiversity of tropical insects: species invertebrate distributions. Our study shows that a baseline richness and inventory completeness of African of estimate of broad-scale diversity patterns in sphingid moths. Global Ecology and Biogeography understudied taxa can be derived from combining 22(5): 586–595. numerical estimators of richness, models of main Abstract: Aim. Many taxa, especially invertebrates, environmental effects and spatial interpolation. Inventory remain biogeographically highly understudied and even completeness can be partly predicted from human baseline assessments are missing, with too limited and geographic features and such models may offer fruitful heterogeneous sampling being key reasons. Here we set guidance for prioritization of future sampling to further out to assess the human geographic and associated refine and validate estimated patterns of species richness. environmental factors behind inventory completeness for the hawkmoths of Africa. We aim to separate the causes BARTSCH, D. 2013. Revisionary checklist of the of differential sampling from those affecting gradients of Southern African Sesiini (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) species richness to illustrate a potential general avenue with description of new species. Zootaxa 3741(1): for advancing knowledge about diversity in understudied 1–54. groups. Location. Sub-Saharan Africa. Methods. Using a Abstract: A revisionary checklist of the Sesiini of database of distributional records of hawkmoths, we southern Africa is presented. All known genera of the computed rarefaction curves and estimated total species region and their type species are redescribed. The richness across 200km x 200km grid cells. We fitted following genera are placed in Sesiini for the first time: multivariate models to identify environmental predictors Alonina Walker, 1856; Anaudia Wallengren, 1863; of species richness and used environmental co-kriging to Austrosetia Felder & Felder, 1874; Megalosphecia Le map region-wide diversity patterns. We estimated cell- Cerf, 1916 and Vespanthedon Le Cerf, 1917. The genera wide inventory completeness from observed and Ci-cinnoscelis Holland, 1893 rev. stat. (from synonymy estimated data, and related these to human geographic with Alonina Walker, 1856) and Felderiola Naumann, factors. Results. Observed patterns of hawkmoths species 1971 rev. stat. (from synonymy with Monopetalotaxis richness are strongly determined by the number of Wallengren, 1859) are resurrected from synonymy and available records in grid cells. Both show spatially included in Sesiini. One new genus, Hagnogyna new structured distributions. Variables describing vegetation gen., and seven new species, Cicinnoscelis flavipes new type, emerge as important predictors of estimated total sp., C. krooni new sp., Alonina rufa new sp., A. fusca richness, and variables capturing heat, energy availability new sp., Anaudia thyranthrena new sp., Felderiola and topographic heterogeneity all show a strong positive karooensis new sp. and F. xanthogaster new sp., are relationship. Patterns of interpolated richness identify described. The following new combinations are three centres of diversity: Cameroon coastal mountains, introduced: Cicinnoscelis longipes Holland, 1893 rev. and the northern and southern East African montane comb., Alonina pyrethra (Hampson, 1919) new comb., areas. Inventory completeness is positively influenced by A. pyrocraspis (Hampson, 1910) new comb., population density, accessibility, protected areas and A. luteopunctata (Freina, 2011) new comb., Felderiola colonial history. Species richness is still under-recorded candescens (Felder & Felder, 1874) rev. comb., Received: 1 December 2013 Hagnogyna sanguicosta (Hampson, 1919) new comb., Accepted: 31 December 2013 H. bartschi (Freina, 2011) new comb. and Vespanthedon chalciphora (Hampson, 1919) new comb. Alonina Copyright: This work is licensed under the Creative difformis Hampson, 1919 new syn. is considered a Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 subjective junior synonym of A. rygchiiformis Walker, Unported License. To view a copy of this license, send a 1856. A lecto-type is designated for Austrosetia semirufa letter to Creative Commons, Second Street, Suite 300, Felder & Felder, 1874 and the previously unknown males San Francisco, California, 94105, USA, or visit: of this species and of Anaudia felderi Wallengren, 1863 http://creative commons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Williams/ Metamorphosis 24: 57–68 58 are described. Bionomical data for some of the species Genetic diversity was dramatically different among discussed are given for the first time. species and not easily explained by either species-specific traits or effects of fragmentation. Aterica galene, the BASQUIN, P. 2013. Contribution à la species most impacted by fragmentation, exhibited very connaissance du complexe de Maltagorea rostaingi high diversity, whereas G. betsimena, a broadly (Griveaud, 1961) à Madagascar (Lepidoptera, distributed, very common species, with relaxed habitat Saturniidae). Saturnafrica 15: 19–25, 27–33. fidelity, was genetically depauperate. There was limited evidence of genetic erosion from the sacred groves despite these small forest patches accounting for less than BASQUIN, P. 2013. Nouveaux Eupterotidae 1-10 % of the total area of the forest reserves, which africains (Lepidoptera). Entomologia Africana indicates these forest relics have high conservation value. 18(1): 23–26. Abstract: Two new Eupterotidae species are described: BOUYER, T. 2013. Description d’une nouvelle Stenoglene bouyeri n. sp. from Gabon and Hoplojana espèce d’Iridana Aurivillius, 1920 du Congo (R. politzari n. sp. from Somalia. D.) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Entomologia Africana 18(1): 4–6. [Iridana ducarmei Bouyer, BASSI, G. 2013. Notes on some Old World 2013] Prionapterygini Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with BOUYER, T. & DUCARME, R. 2013. descriptions of new species. Revue Suisse de Description de la femelle de Cymothoe bouyeri Van Zoologie 120(1): 131–160. de Weghe, 2011 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Abstract: Notes on some Old World Prionapterygini Entomologia Africana 18(1): 27–28. Landry, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Crambinae), with descriptions of new species. – Zovax COACHE, A., RAINON, B. & ZANNOU, E. venus Bassi sp. n. along with two new species of Mesolia 2013. Enfin un Cymothoe Hübner, 1919 en Ragonot, 1889 (M. meyi Bassi sp. n. and M. alborzella République du Bénin (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Bassi sp. n.) and four new species of Prionapteryx Stephens, 1834 (P. banaadirensis Bassi sp. n., P. eberti L’Entomologiste 69(3): 133–135. [Cymothoe druryi Bassi & Mey sp. n., P. helena Bassi sp. n. and P. somala van Velzen & Larsen, 2009 recorded from Bénin] Bassi sp. n.) are described. A lectotype is designated for Z. whiteheadii (Wollaston), 1879. Loxophantis Meyrick, COACHE, A., RAINON, B. & ZANNOU, E. 1935 is newly considered as a synonym of Prionapteryx, 2013. Découverte du mâle de Tumerepedes flava which causes the following changes: Prionapteryx Bethune-Baker, 1913, en République du Bénin triplecta (Meyrick, 1935), comb. n., and Prionapteryx (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae). L’Entomologiste 69(1): albimaculalis (Hampson), 1919 = Loxophantis 57–58. pretoriella Bleszynski, 1970 syn. n. P. triplecta is compared to P. diaplecta (Meyrick), P. albimaculalis is COCK, M.J.W. & CONGDON, T.C.E. 2013. compared to P. plumbealis (Hampson) and M. meyi is Observations on the biology of Afrotropical compared to M. uniformella Janse 1922. All species are Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 5. Hesperiinae fully illustrated. The habitus of P. amathusia Bassi & incertae sedis: Dicotyledon feeders. Zootaxa Mey, 2011 is illustrated and corrections to Bassi & Mey (2011) are given. A list of species presently placed in 3724(1): 1–85. Prionapteryx and which should be transferred to Surattha Walker, 1863 is given. COCKBURN, K.N.A. 2013. Observations on the larval host plant and life history of the Dwarf Blue, BOSSART, J.L. & ANTWI, J.B. 2013. Species- Oraidium barberae Trimen, 1868 (Lycaenidae: specific traits predict genetic structure but not Polyommatinae). Metamorphosis 24: 12–14. genetic diversity of three fragmented Afrotropical forest butterfly species. Conservation Genetics COETZER, A.J. & GARDINER, A.J. 2013. The 14(2): 511–528. behaviour and life history of Anthene crawshayi Abstract: The Upper Guinean forests of Ghana, West juanitae Henning & Henning,