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<bibRefCitation id="F02EBF517E30D0F68C01F416BF9B010A" author="Rungs C" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution a l'etude du genre Sesamia Guen. a Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Memoires de l'Institut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155 - 167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs 1954</bibRefCitation>
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;
<figureCitation id="C87B6F59799255698678213E3881D082" captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Female genitalia from members of the incerta subgroup (ventral view). A S. epunctifera; B S. firmata; C S. incerta; D S. kamba sp. nov.; E S. msowero sp. nov.; F S. pennipuncta; G S. penniseti; H S. poephaga; I S. simplaria. Scale bar = 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.82.e113140.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1067458">9 I</figureCitation>
;
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;
<figureCitation id="0FC88B7CD4A0D39028D058FD2025725E" captionStart="Figure 12" captionStartId="F12" captionText="Figure 12. Adults of the incerta subgroup (S. lalaci sp. nov., S. lusese sp. nov., S. msowero sp. nov., S. pennipuncta, S. penniseti, S. poephaga and S. simplaria). S. lalaci sp. nov.: A male upper side; B male underside; S. lusese sp. nov.: C male upper side; D male underside; S. msowero sp. nov.: E male upper side; F male underside; G female upper side; H female underside; S. pennipuncta: I male upper side; J male underside; K female upper side; L female underside; S. penniseti: M male upper side; N male underside; O female upper side; P female underside; S. poephaga: Q male upper side; R male underside; S female upper side; T female underside; S. simplaria: U male upper side; V male underside; W female upper side; X female underside. Scale bar = 10 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.82.e113140.figure12" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1067461">12 U X</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="66C706BE62E8FBC716A8B2B246DE03CC" italics="true">Sesamia simplaria</emphasis>
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, fig. 2; Planche VIII, figs 2, 5),
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, figs 548, 549),
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(1989: 908
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[catalogue]).
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<heading id="F9E5AAB7D2DEF17026E5BA681A4E496B" reason="title">Type material.</heading>
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<paragraph id="458A011A8774DB769A7098CF337ACE02">
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Type
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, [
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], Sn. 18,
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gen ♂ n ° 2549, L 556, TYPE, TYPUS
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<emphasis id="AE70230C0D8824BC1E2489A593080492" italics="true">Sesamia simplaria</emphasis>
(Saalm) Rungs
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,
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det. 1961, TYPE ♂
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<emphasis id="36E4846C0A69185C74A67D5B704F0575" italics="true">Sesamia simplaria</emphasis>
(Saalm) Rgs Cg. Rungs
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det 1953, Fotografiert 2014 H. Thöny, Senckenberg Museum, (Francfort-sur-le-Main)
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.
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<heading id="02C06AB7043BCB46B42CCD805261B944" reason="title">Other material.</heading>
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:
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,
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, [A.]
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, [18] 89, Lep. 556 x
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, this specimen is not the typus of
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<emphasis id="0F98AF21C2688CD27FC9167D3F5EDE8B" italics="true">Leucania simplaria</emphasis>
Saalm
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, its a specimen of
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<emphasis id="FB49E4AA4F95E9B553E2DB44D866643E" italics="true">Sesamia simplaria</emphasis>
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.
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det 1961, [Senckenberg Museum, Francfort-sur-le-Main]; one ♂, [Madagascar], Agrotidae genitalia slide No. 1432, (
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)
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;
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, 1924, Coll.
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, (
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;
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<specimenCount id="A0C39956773158B4B06A86C0919A5914" count="1" type="male">one ♂</specimenCount>
,
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.,
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,
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a. s. l., P. Viette, Chasse n ° 18 du 7. X. [19] 51, Mission P. Viette
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</date>
,
<collectorName id="D77D472ECD5E92362ABD45F8FC218328">Ch. Rungs</collectorName>
gen. MP. 26, (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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<specimenCount id="B922CA2171631A344DC29807DDC2AE9C" count="1" type="male">one ♂</specimenCount>
,
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.,
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,
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<location id="15BD23BCB56C98E1930FD52B0E18895C" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:D88E5937D9E25F8E99148D06EA1F0322:15BD23BCB56C98E1930FD52B0E18895C" county="Plateaux de l'Imerina" municipality="Tananarive" name="Parc de Tsimbazaza" stateProvince="Madagascar Centr">Parc de Tsimbazaza</location>
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a. s. l., P. Viette, Chasse n ° 97 du
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<collectingDate id="8F5BE687E7F711753EC92FC457011F70" value="1952-01-13">13. I. 1952</collectingDate>
</date>
, Mission P. Viette
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</date>
,
<collectorName id="D67D0980D380BF42E1D6CAC003C72872">Ch. Rungs</collectorName>
gen. MP. 1, (
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)
</materialsCitation>
;
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<specimenCount id="5D1BE70BCFE3C74B52737411BF19BB8A" count="7" type="male">seven ♂</specimenCount>
,
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, env. de
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, 1921,
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,
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male gen. MP. 42, Genitalia P. Viette female prep. n ° 4380, (
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<specimenCount id="0DAB532B47DDF46B35AA563243CBB17E" count="3" type="male">three ♂</specimenCount>
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, [
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.,
<collectingCounty id="9FE55DEAE1128A38F8C64515F09AD602">Plateaux de lImerina</collectingCounty>
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,
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a. s. l.],
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le
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,
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, route de
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, Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, 3071 R, (
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EX2AM" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph id="8D34E9B4CB4D403EF9C81A633572722E">
<heading id="8E79C690C4F7DE7AC0F12FF541795D60" reason="title">Diagnosis.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E27106AEE0E62F63544773979F6441C0">
(See also the identification key of
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<emphasis id="024CD13F5B7F3438934535D52BDDCBE0" italics="true">incerta</emphasis>
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subgroup, section 3.4. 2.). This species can be distinguished from the other known members of the
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<emphasis id="2B3D666131CEE80F0FBC03516F491B75" italics="true">incerta</emphasis>
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subgroup by the combination of the following characters of the male and female genitalia: vinculum v-shaped at the outer margin, u-shaped at the inner margin without indentation, with a medium sized saccus; sacculus with a broad and short apical extension, curved inwards, strongly club-shaped; juxta large, the inferior plate triangular produced into a blunt point, the sides rounded, the superior plate long and wide, bifid terminally; phallus short and thick, curved; vesica with a large semi-circular cornutus; ventrolateral plates of female segment A 8 very large, as wide as long, the anterior side slightly convex, the posterior side triangular, separated by a deep longitudinal ditch backward the ostium; ostium bursae funnel-shaped; ductus bursae without posterior elongated sclerotized areas; ovipositor lobes at least twice as long than wide.
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<subSubSection id="SECID0ER3AM" type="Taxonomic notes">
<paragraph id="05D23F92C6AE999A7D8AFDFFAF4C417F">
<heading id="BF0F54FBEC4978A770209D2FA9243F07" reason="title">Taxonomic notes.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6FF8F475B6D4A2540848558668696196">
<bibRefCitation id="9349F34CDFEEBEFA410B70FC97BAD5D7" author="Rungs C" firstAuthor="Rungs" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs (1954)</bibRefCitation>
, without providing rationale regarding his interpretation of the notoriously difficult descriptions by
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, considered that the text part of that authors description of
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<emphasis id="E382026CE4A820139E2FEDCEE9D757E1" italics="true">Leucania simplaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(cf.
<bibRefCitation id="C6E252F0249FDF283357D4DAD55B0F6A" author="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L]" firstAuthor="Saalmuller" page="252 - 253" refId="B60" refString="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L] (1891) Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. In Commission bei Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-am-Main, 247531." year="1891">Saalmüller 1891: 252253</bibRefCitation>
) did indeed relate to a species corresponding to the current concept of
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<emphasis id="4D8426D02D0EF1D347459B425FE7CA1E" italics="true">Leucania</emphasis>
Ochsenheimer, 1816
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, although the illustration associated with the description was that of a
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<emphasis id="FF3A615BB336D54E156A20F040CFBBBB" italics="true">Sesamia</emphasis>
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(cf.
<bibRefCitation id="584D4AAE098BAC747781FE9018ACED0E" author="Saalmuller" firstAuthor="Saalmuller" refId="B60" refString="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L] (1891) Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. In Commission bei Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-am-Main, 247531." year="1891">Saalmüller 1891</bibRefCitation>
: Tafel X, fig. 160). Rungs further stated that the depicted specimen must have been a female by its filiform antennae, so that of the
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listed by Saalmüller, one in the Lübeck museum (whose collection is destroyed) and the other in
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, the latter, actually a male
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<emphasis id="D93A21F5FF8E9A03D6D08E13DE26F54D" italics="true">Sesamia</emphasis>
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, was the only surviving (syn) type, and he proceeded with a redescription of the species based on this and other supplementary specimens.
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brought forward Rungs argumentation and challenged also his interpretation of Saalmüllers illustration and the labelling of the
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specimen of
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<emphasis id="ABFFB2A3017EB1B7B5023BDCC1B4B228" italics="true">Sesamia</emphasis>
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examined by Rungs as one (syn) type of
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<emphasis id="30F92AA7FB64D7B2557E196A3BA3C19D" italics="true">Leucania simplaria</emphasis>
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, considering that the whole description by
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was not mixed and fully related to the species nowadays known as
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<emphasis id="12B13DAB4251E3AFEDA0A909796BE40A" italics="true">Leucania</emphasis>
(
<emphasis id="11ACC8842A24F7040ABDFC6A4CE45B16" italics="true">Boursinania</emphasis>
)
<emphasis id="D4E98965233B01426A189DB3923DFE58" italics="true">simplaria</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="44CBBBD15B0C42BBE3014A7F5868DC02" author="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L]" refId="B60" refString="Saalmuller M [and von Heyden L] (1891) Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. In Commission bei Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-am-Main, 247 - 531." year="1891">Saalmüller, 1891</bibRefCitation>
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. The
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<emphasis id="0ED457732423417061021FB020B3B60D" italics="true">Sesamia</emphasis>
species
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with which the latter has been confused may therefore be attributed and dated as from
<bibRefCitation id="DE051613EFCDD28F0C87F56DDFFBAD86" author="Rungs C" firstAuthor="Rungs" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs (1954)</bibRefCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EEABM" type="description">
<paragraph id="62F496A597A41F912AEC4D5AA94924CE">
<heading id="3C691B051E6A64AC92D3E96B5599487D" reason="title">Description.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="A733F78BCDC7E8407FD186DB239C9B8A">
(Fig.
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). Both males and females have been described in great detail by Rungs in 1954 and completed by Viette in 1967. —
<emphasis id="B99F297F8D8A5A45C921A09CD99A1F90" bold="true" italics="true">Forewing length</emphasis>
: male
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(x ̅ =
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(x ̅ = 33.0 mm, N = 5). —
<emphasis id="489B21ECADCDAE778726B2D2CEBC15B5" bold="true" italics="true">Male genitalia</emphasis>
(Fig.
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). Although already partly described by
<bibRefCitation id="244281E88D02C4BA0BA764CAE16E5561" author="Rungs C" firstAuthor="Rungs" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs (1954)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="211006474BA61818F9C21EF406480506" author="Viette P" firstAuthor="Viette" pagination="491-825" refId="B71" refString="Viette P (1967) Insectes Lépidoptères Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae (part.) et Melicleptriinae. Faune de Madagascar. ORSTOM CNRS, Paris. 20: 491825." title="Insectes Lépidoptères Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae (part.) et Melicleptriinae. Faune de Madagascar. ORSTOM CNRS, Paris." volume="20" year="1967">Viette (1967)</bibRefCitation>
we provide here a complete description. Tegumen with large peniculi, slightly erected; vinculum u-shaped at the outer margin, u-shaped at the inner margin without indentation, with a medium sized saccus. Valve with sacculus and cucullus separate; costa short and narrow, heavily sclerotized, ending with a thick and long straight spine, with two apical teeth; sacculus heavily sclerotized rounded at base, a broad and short apical extension, slightly curved inwards, strongly club-shaped, bearing numerous short and stout spines; cucullus long, weakly sclerotized, clavate at apex, with scattered and papillated hairs. Juxta large, the inferior plate triangular produced into a blunt point, the sides rounded, the superior plate long and neck, bifid terminally; uncus small and stout, angled at base, tapered near apex to a fine curved point; phallus short and thick, slightly curved; lamina ventralis with an elongate carinal crest; vesica with a large semi-circular cornutus. —
<emphasis id="2626AF1ED9C18CAD26B89CF775324914" bold="true" italics="true">Female genitalia</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation id="A1CC3D555C8E06F6AB185BB7B3AEE607" captionStart="Figure 9" captionStartId="F9" captionText="Figure 9. Female genitalia from members of the incerta subgroup (ventral view). A S. epunctifera; B S. firmata; C S. incerta; D S. kamba sp. nov.; E S. msowero sp. nov.; F S. pennipuncta; G S. penniseti; H S. poephaga; I S. simplaria. Scale bar = 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.82.e113140.figure9" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1067458">9 I</figureCitation>
). Apophyses anteriores with spatulate tips; ventrolateral plates of female segment A 8 very large, as wide as long, the anterior side slightly convex, the posterior side triangular, separated by a deep longitudinal ditch backward the ostium; ostium bursae funnel-shaped, weakly sclerotized; ductus bursae very short, without elongated sclerotized areas; ductus seminalis from the basal part of the corpus bursae; corpus bursae long, without signa; ovipositor lobes at least twice as long than wide with dorsal surface bearing numerous short and stout setae, the ventral side of each lobe slightly curved and tooth-shaped; apophyses posteriores more slender than apophyses anteriores.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EHBBM" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="58C966D0CFCAF911C3D02CD9DDED61C9">
<heading id="CA264033F265D7C7E6DC87017B42E3EC" reason="title">Distribution.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F0CA89238130E9E9FE30B6258402688E">
<collectingCountry id="8812B9C0274AB908F4C9347708F1E554" name="Madagascar">Madagascar</collectingCountry>
. Known from several localities in different vegetation mosaics ( lowland rain forest wetter types (Mosaic # 1 b), cultivation and secondary grassland, replacing upland and montane forest (Mosaic # 18), dry deciduous forest and secondary grassland (Mosaic # 22 b )) (
<bibRefCitation id="E63FD21CD1AB3D4B3AC4BB3C7F8FC674" author="White" firstAuthor="White" pagination="1-356" refId="B74" refString="White F (1983) The vegetation of Africa, a descriptive memoir to accompany the UNESCO / AETFAT / UNSO vegetation map of Africa. UNESCO, Natural Resources Research. 20: 1356." title="The vegetation of Africa, a descriptive memoir to accompany the UNESCO / AETFAT / UNSO vegetation map of Africa. UNESCO, Natural Resources Research." volume="20" year="1983">White 1983</bibRefCitation>
) (Fig.
<figureCitation id="668AB14E0A3A9E5312C58E9E789A2226" captionStart="Figure 11" captionStartId="F11" captionText="Figure 11. Distribution map of sampled specimens of the incerta subgroup: S. firmata, S. lalaci sp. nov., S. pennipuncta, S. poephaga, S. penniseti, S. simplaria." figureDoi="10.3897/asp.82.e113140.figure11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1067460">11</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0EVBBM" type="ecology">
<paragraph id="36A064FA9A42EFEBCB414D4FC4B08876">
<heading id="2F7DE95150AB83C21AAEB7F43D6C5686" reason="title">Ecology.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="03C12A475770246FF9832676DCD7E64B">Unknown.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="SECID0E1BBM" type="remarks">
<paragraph id="6B42A8AC5D10E81D9E0D44416F7962F0">
<heading id="DD3936A4534290DFF14B10155F690EA1" reason="title">Remarks.</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E572C7B5DAEE2FC655724A8E5561A855">
This species was named in
<bibRefCitation id="FE4BCDB1EB34AAEEF7C4036C2B8B6358" author="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L]" refId="B60" refString="Saalmuller M [and von Heyden L] (1891) Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. In Commission bei Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-am-Main, 247 - 531." year="1891">Saalmüller and von Heyden (1891)</bibRefCitation>
but the description provided by Saalmüller corresponds to that of a
<taxonomicName id="9BDFBBE6372D8C4A018ADE0F2ECB327B" authority="Ochsenheimer" authorityName="Ochsenheimer" authorityYear="1816" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Leucania" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="83F839DDAAEE22E50FD3828DBB2F9ACB" italics="true">Leucania</emphasis>
Ochsenheimer
</taxonomicName>
(Noctuinae: Leucaniini), and not at all to the figure illustrating the species (fig. 160), which is a
<taxonomicName id="75B0FE214FCF9F8F2C202D030100B6BF" authorityName="Guenee" authorityYear="1852" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Sesamia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0BDDDA8FB45ECAB8225F401DB2416F41" italics="true">Sesamia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Saalmüller therefore did not describe
<taxonomicName id="FA9B39FEC91D04B80DD71077FFDC0EDC" authorityName="Saalmuller" authorityYear="1891" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Leucania" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplaria">
<emphasis id="99473B197ECA480A59903226809C655E" italics="true">S. simplaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<bibRefCitation id="BFD05E958E1F447D7C5F94D82A7AD49D" author="Rungs C" firstAuthor="Rungs" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs (1954)</bibRefCitation>
decided to describe the species on the basis of the
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<typeStatus id="02E21C53EB82A2894DC7A0E17146D472">type</typeStatus>
from the Senckenberg Museum, [Francfort-sur-le-Main] which was the specimen in the fig. 160 of
<bibRefCitation id="BF5BDA9ACD710ACE2F199673A4548DED" author="Saalmüller M [and von Heyden L]" refId="B60" refString="Saalmuller M [and von Heyden L] (1891) Lepidopteren von Madagascar. Zweite Abtheilung. Heterocera: Noctuae, Geometrae, Microlepidoptera. In Commission bei Moritz Diesterweg, Frankfurt-am-Main, 247 - 531." year="1891">Saalmüller and von Heyden (1891)</bibRefCitation>
. According to
<bibRefCitation id="FE464A29AE7370123FB0318E3AD3CF03" author="Rungs C" firstAuthor="Rungs" journalOrPublisher="Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E)" pagination="155-167" refId="B58" refString="Rungs C (1954) Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae). Mémoires de lInstitut scientifique de Madagascar (E) 5: 155167." title="Contribution à létude du genre Sesamia Guén. à Madagascar (Lep., Phalaenidae)." volume="5" year="1954">Rungs (1954)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="1DD1E34C22AD9E0A6F0D7E7FFDF26D6A" author="Viette P" firstAuthor="Viette" pagination="491-825" refId="B71" refString="Viette P (1967) Insectes Lépidoptères Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae (part.) et Melicleptriinae. Faune de Madagascar. ORSTOM CNRS, Paris. 20: 491825." title="Insectes Lépidoptères Noctuidae, Amphipyrinae (part.) et Melicleptriinae. Faune de Madagascar. ORSTOM CNRS, Paris." volume="20" year="1967">Viette (1967)</bibRefCitation>
,
<taxonomicName id="CF635F329BE5EDBACC523925FE3A0490" authorityName="Saalmuller" authorityYear="1891" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Leucania" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplaria">
<emphasis id="72083F4F2AE29B34FA11A023147A3765" italics="true">S. simplaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
would belong to the
<taxonomicName id="2DE3BBA8ED54566C0DCEA2C3A38431BA" authorityName="Hampson" authorityYear="1910" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Sesamia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="calamistis">
<emphasis id="BF052356688E8F28F951651E66676E83" italics="true">calamistis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subgroup. However, the short pectination of the male antennae, the apical extension of the sacculus strongly club-shaped and the lateral plates of the ostial segment very large, as wide as long, suggest that
<taxonomicName id="49576A807F1D02FEEC0E06DECB312164" authorityName="Saalmuller" authorityYear="1891" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Leucania" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="simplaria">
<emphasis id="3B41AF403BA3FAF2D2DF15E466295D2C" italics="true">S. simplaria</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
rather belongs to the
<taxonomicName id="3A14A5A31B2EC6F0A6FCA2F8C79EDC74" baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1856" class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Sesamia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="incerta">
<emphasis id="AFE7745ADA5E1AB5A2F7838EDF25CC09" italics="true">incerta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
subgroup.
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