A Revision of the Genuspoeonomatams & Bowden (lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Apameini: Sesamiina) with the Description of a New Genus and Two New Sesamiine Species from the Afrotropical Region

The genusPoeonomaTams & Bowden, 1953 is revised to include two speciesP. serrata(Hampson, 1910) andP. ugandensisLe Run. sp., from the Congolian bioregion. Several new synonyms are introduced forPoeonoma serrata:Conicofrontia sjoestedtiAurivillius, 1925n. syn. forPoeonoma serrata(Hampson, 1910),Poeonoma similisTams & Bowden, 1953n. syn. forPoeonoma serrata(Hampson, 1910), andPoeonoma nigribasisLaporte, 1974n. syn. forPoeonoma serrata(Hampson, 1910). A new genus,NyalutemeLe Run. gen., is proposed for two species formerly included inPoeonoma,N. acantha(Tams & Bowden, 1953)n. comb. andN. inermis(Laporte, 1973)n. comb., andN. nigraLe Run. sp., described from the Congolian bioregion. Host-plants for three of the species are recorded:Pennisetum purpureumSchumach. forP. serrataandP. ugandensis, andMiscanthus violaceus(K. Schum) Pilg. forN. nigra. A key to species, descriptions, illustrations of adults and genitalia, and distribution maps are included. Results of previously published phylogenetic analyses also allow the status of the new genus to be confirmed and to infer the phylogenetic placement of the two genera.