Anthozela chrysoxantha Meyrick 1913

Anthozela chrysoxantha Meyrick, 1913

Fig. 32

Anthozela chrysoxantha was described from South Africa. Meyrick (1936) reported the host as Pavetta sp. (Rubiaceae). We examined four specimens from Kakamega Forest, Western Province, 1570 m, 16 December 1999, reared from Tarenna pavettoides ssp. triessiorum (Rubiaceae), A&M Coll. #402, R. S. Copeland. According to Horak (2006), the female genitalia have not been described or illustrated previously, so we provide a diagnosis and description.

Diagnosis. The female genitalia of A. chrysoxantha (Fig. 32) are similar to those of A. hilaris (Horak 2006: fig. 498) and A. bathysema (Diakonoff 1984: fig. 38). They can be distinguished by the shield-shaped lamella antevaginalis, which is absent in A. hilaris and A. bathysema, and a pair of signa that are broader basally and more claw-shaped than the slender thorn-shaped signa of those species. The papillae anales are slender and unmodified; the apophyses are 2.25–2.50 times as long as the papillae anales, the anteriores slightly longer than the posteriores; the cup-shaped part of the sterigma (i.e., lamella antevaginalis) has a distinct shield-shaped sclerite with three small, parallel, lateral creases; it is separated from the indistinct antrum by membrane; the ductus bursae is slender, uniform in width, with a small bulbous swelling at the posterior end at the junction with the corpus bursae, from which arises the ductus seminalis; the corpus bursae is large, ovoid, with a pair of strong, curved, claw-shaped signa; an accessory sac is absent.