Taxonomic review of the Afrotropical genus Anaphosia Hampson with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini: Lithosiina)

Abstract

The Afrotropical Lithosiini genus Anaphosia Hampson, 1903, which comprises the largest footman moth species on the continent, is reviewed with one new species described as new to science: Anaphosia smithi sp. n. The genus is re-described and diagnosed and compared to the similar Carcinopodia Hampson, 1900 with which it has been previously confused. Adults, male and female genitalia of all Anaphosia species as well as the type species of Carcinopodia, Carcinopodia furcifasciata (Butler, 1895) are illustrated.