Siccia anserina, Kuhne, 2007

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 : 26

The S. anserina species-group

Diagnosis. The male genitalia ground plan of the group is similar to that of the S. taprobanis species-group but the valva is broader and bears a larger distal saccular process. The main difference between the groups is found in the vesica structure, which is characterised by the presence of a sclerotised plate bearing a cluster of spine-like cornuti in the S. anserina species-group whereas that of the S. taprobanis species-group bears separate robust cornuti in most species. In the female genitalia, the S. anserina species-group differs from the S. taprobanis species-group in the posterior section of the corpus bursae being densely covered with minute spinules (it is gelatinous with sclerotised plates and dentation in the S. taprobanis species-group), the anterior section of the corpus bursae lacking signa, and the broader and less helicoid appendix bursae.