Siccia nzame, Volynkin, 2023

Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Siccia Walker (= Aemene Walker, syn. n.) in the Afrotropics with descriptions of seventy-three new species, three new subspecies, and a check-list of Asiatic taxa of the genus (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 64, pp. 1-184 : 58

The S. nzame species-group

Diagnosis. The male genital capsule structure of the species-group is similar to the S. cretata species-group but differs in the smaller uncus, the proximally broader valvae anteriorly connected by a membranous commissure, and the more heavily sclerotised ventral costal lobe bearing robust spike-like processes. The cucullus is elongate and bilobate, reminiscent of those of S. rarita and S. megista . The female genitalia of the nzame species-group can be distinguished from those of the S. cretata species-group by the more heavily sclerotised postvaginal area with markedly shorter lateral subostial lobes, and the distally helicoid appendix bursae.