Siccia terlineata ( Durante, 2009 ) Volynkin, 2019

Volynkin, Anton V., 2019, On the taxonomy of the genus Afrasura Durante, 2009, with description of a new species from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4608 (1), pp. 174-182 : 181

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4608.1.10

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E88FFE82-19DA-428C-9385-E9138F217A13

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5924215

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039A4B47-2A5E-9716-FF7A-FB845D7CA0DF

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Plazi

scientific name

Siccia terlineata ( Durante, 2009 )
status

comb. nov.

Siccia terlineata ( Durante, 2009) , comb. nov.

( Figs 9 View FIGURES 1–11 , 22 View FIGURES 18–23 )

Afrasura terlineata Durante, 2009 View in CoL , Zootaxa 2280: 49, figs 32, 72 (Type locality: “ Ethiopia, Langano lake, 7°32’N, 38°31’E, 1580 m a.s.l.”).

Remark. The male of S. terlineata is unknown. Nevertheless, according to the female genitalia structure (the sclerotized ductus bursae (in Afrasura ductus bursae is subdivided into antrum and membranous anterior part), the presence of the postero-lateral sclerotized area in the corpus bursae, the presence of the lateral band-like signum, and the elongate and twisted appendix bursae) and the forewing coloration and pattern, terlineata clearly belongs to the genus Siccia and is closely related to Siccia conformis Hampson, 1914 . The genitalia of the female holotype of S. terlineata ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15–17 ) differs only slightly from that of S. conformis ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 15–17 ), rendering this taxon presumably to be just a synonym of the widespread and polymorphic S. conformis . To clarify the status of S. terlineata , examination of its male is necessary.

Distribution. The species is known from its type locality only, Lake Langano in Central Ethiopia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Arctiidae

Genus

Siccia

Loc

Siccia terlineata ( Durante, 2009 )

Volynkin, Anton V. 2019
2019
Loc

Afrasura terlineata

Durante 2009
2009
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