Descriptions of new Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) reared from native fruit in Kenya Author Razowski, Józef Author Brown, John W. text Zootaxa 2012 3222 1 27 journal article 45308 10.5281/zenodo.280255 9d264785-6035-49e2-b6cf-29e3022a6e80 1175-5326 280255 Anthozela Meyrick, 1913 Type species: Anthozela chrysoxantha Meyrick, 1913 . The taxonomic history and circumscription of Anthozela is somewhat complicated and involves species previously placed under at least five contemporary generic names: Anthozela , Gephyroneura Obraztsov, 1968 , Mehteria Koçak, 1981 , Loboschiza Diakonoff, 1968 , and Cimeliomorpha Diakonoff, 1966 . Anthozela was described by Meyrick to accommodate the single species A. chrysoxantha from South Africa ; Ghesquière (1940) added A. anonidii Ghesquière, 1940 , from the Belgian Congo . Clarke (1958) provided illustrations of the adult and male genitalia of the lectotype of “ Laspeyresia ” hemidoxa Meyrick, 1907 , from India (most recently included in Mehteria ); Obraztsov (1968) provided illustrations of the head, wing venation, and genitalia of the latter, which he designated as the type species of his genus Gephyroneura ; and Diakonoff (1984) provided illustrations of the genitalia of Gephyroneura bathysema Diakonoff, 1984 , from Indonesia . Koçak (1981) recognized that Gephyroneura was preoccupied, and proposed the replacement name Mehteria . Brown (2005) included two species in Anthozela : chrysoxantha and anonidii , and six species in Mehteria : bathysema , hemidoxa (Meyrick, 1907) , mediana (Walker, 1866) (with synonyms gratulata (Meyrick, 1916), sulfurella (Pagenstecher, 1900), and turifera (Meyrick, 1912)), novarana (Felder and Rogenhofer, 1875), perdigna (Kuznetsov, 1976) , and theonarcha (Meyrick, 1911). Horak (2006) proposed the synonymy of Mehteria with Anthozela , assigning hemidoxa , bathysema , and hilaris (Turner, 1916) to Anthozela , bringing to five the number of included species (see Appendix 1). Horak (2006) transferred mediana and its synonyms (two of which, gratulata and turifera , she elevated to species status), theonarcha , and cinnabaritis (Meyrick, 1928) to Loboschiza . Although Brown (2005) included novarana in Anthozela , Kuznetsov (1997) had previously transferred the species to Cimeliomorpha , a new combination overlooked by Brown. According to Horak (2006) , the correct placement of G. perdigna remains unresolved (see Apendix 1). The male genitalia of Anthozela are distinguished by a highly modified gnathos ( sensu Horak 2006 ) consisting of a pair of large, dorsoposteriorly-projecting lobes together forming a hood-shaped structure over the top of the tegumen, each lobe with a row of peglike setae along the dorsal and lateral margin. In the female genitalia there is a slightly bulbous swelling at the posterior end of the corpus bursae (at the junction with the ductus bursae) from which the ductus seminalis arises; two long, curved, thorn-shaped signa; and a frail, membranous accessory sac ( sensu Horak 2006 ) or “parabursa” at the anterior end of the corpus bursae. Previously reported food plants for the genus include Anonidium manii Engl. & Diels (Annonaceae) for Anthozela anonidii ; Pavetta sp. ( Rubiaceae ) for Anthozela chrysoxantha ; and Piper kadsura (Choisy) Ohwi and Piper nigrum L. ( Piperaceae ) for Anthozela hemidoxa (Brown et al. 2010) .