Siccia setis, 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 : 65

The S. setis species-group

Diagnosis. The male genital capsule of the species-group is characterised by the elongate, narrow and distally tapered valva with a nodular and densely setose cucullus, and the sacculus bearing an elongate dense cluster of thin spinules as well as a lobular distal process. The ventral costal lobe is short and bears several robust spines. The phallus and the vesica structures are similar to the S. cretata and the S. nzame species-groups. In the female genitalia of the species-group, the lateral subostial lobes are heavily sclerotised, elongate and rugose, the corpus bursae is elliptical, densely covered with minute spinules bearing a band-shaped dense cluster of spinules, and the appendix bursae is short, conical and situated laterally.