Siccia pallidata subsp. species-group

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 : 86

The S. pallidata species-group

Diagnosis. The group comprises relatively small species with a narrow forewing. In the male genital capsule, the ventral lobe of the valva is short and bearing a cluster of spinules in certain species. The cucullus is uni- or bilobate with elongate and narrow lobes. The membranous lobe is present, separated from both the cucullus and the distal saccular process. The latter is elongate and narrow. The phallus is long and broad (in proportion to the genital capsule size) and with a dentate carinal plate. The vesica is broad with elongate diverticula of various shapes, bearing broad fields of graniculi and clusters of spine-like cornuti in certain species. In the female genitalia, the sclerotised antrum is characteristic of the species-group. The corpus bursae is densely covered with minute spinules, which are more robust posteriorly. The appendix bursae is conical and situated anterio-laterally.