Desmond Conlong

Desmond Conlong, South African entomologist

South African Sugarcane Research Institute, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe, 4300, South Africa.
School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of Kwazulu–Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Moyal, P., Le Rü, B., Van den Berg, J., Ratnadass, A., Cugala, D., Matama-Kauma, T., Pallangyo, B., Conlong, D. & Defabachew, B. 2011. Morphological reinforcement, ancient introgressive hybridization and species delimiation in African stem-borer species of the genus Sesamia Guenee (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Systematic Entomology 36: 421-434. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00570.x. . Reference page.

Kergoat, G.J., Toussaint, E.F.A., Capdevielle-Dulac, C., Clamens, A.-L., Ong'amo, G., Conlong, D., Van den Berg, J., Cugala, D., Pallangyo, B., Mubenga, O., Chipabika, G., Ndemah, R., Sezonlin, M., Bani, G., Molo, R., Ali, A., Calatayud, P.-A., Kaiser, L., Silvain, J.-F. & Le Ru, B. 2015. Integrative taxonomy reveals six new species related to the Mediterranean corn stalk borer Sesamia nonagrioides (Lefèbvre) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Sesamiina). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 244-270. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12275. . Reference page.
Le Ru, B., Capdevielle-Dulac, C., Conlong, D., Pallangyo, B., Van den Berg, J., Ong'amo, G. & Kergoat, G.J. 2015. A revision of the genus Conicofrontia Hampson (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Apameini, Sesamiina), with description of a new species: new insights from morphological, ecological and molecular data. Zootaxa 3925(1): 56–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.4 Reference page.

Le Ru, B,, Capdevielle-Dulac, C., Musyoka, B.K., Goftishu, M., Assefa, Y., Ndemah, R., Molo, R., Chipabika, G., Conlong, D., Ong'amo, G. & Kergoat, G.J. 2017. Molecular phylogenetics and definition of the Acrapex minima Janse group (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Apameini, Sesamiina) with the description of four new species from the Afrotropics Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 53(4): 219–235. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2017.1332959 Reference page.

Le Ru, B., Capdevielle-Dulac, C., Musyoka, B.K., Palangyo, B., Njaku, M., Goftishu, M., Assefa, Y., Chipabika, G., Conlong, D., Ong’amo, G., Barbut, J. & Kergoat, G.J. 2020. Toward an understanding of the systematics and evolution of the genus Acrapex Hampson, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Apameini: Sesamiina): molecular phylogenetics of the genus and review of the species-rich Acrapex aenigma group. Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) 56(1): 29-91. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2019.1708211 . Reference page.