Sciomesa mesophaea (Aurivillius, 1910b) COMMON NAME(S): Owlet Moth, Underwing or Noctuid moth. SYNONYM(S): Conicofrontia mesoscia Hampson, 1918a; Sciomesa etchecopari Laporte, 1975; Sciomesa constantini Laporte, 1984; Sciomesa mirifica Laporte, 1984. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mpika, in Muchinga Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): Host plants include the following Typhaceae species; Typha domingensis Pers. and T. latifolia L. (Moyal et al. 2010). They also include the following Cyperaceae species; Schoenoplectus sp., Cyperus dives Delile, C. aterrimus Hochst. ex Steud., C. congestus Vahl, C. dichrostachyus Hochst., C. involucratus Rottb. and C. solidus Kunth (Moyal et al. 2010). SOURCES: De Prins & De Prins 2022; Fletcher 1963; Moyal et al. 2010.

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434