Siccia gypsia, Hampson, 1914

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 : 50

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2023.64.1

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scientific name

Siccia gypsia
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The S. gypsia View in CoL species-group

Diagnosis. The male genital capsule of the species-group is characterised by the medially constricted and distally narrow valva lacking the distal saccular process and having an elliptical cucullus, and the heavily sclerotised juxta bearing postero-lateral processes. The phallus is elongate and narrow. The vesica is broad with a number of short diverticula and bearing fields of spinulose scobination. In the female genitalia, the lateral subostial lobes are short, the antrum is robust, posteriorly dilated, medially membranous and with heavily sclerotised and swollen lateral margins. The corpus bursae is elliptical and covered with minute spinules. The appendix bursae is short and narrow.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Siccia

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