Siccia melanospila, Hampson, 1911

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 : 62

The S. melanospila species-group

Diagnosis. The male genital capsule of this species-group is characterised by the broad valva with a ventral costal lobe densely covered with robust setae, and the cucullus having an elongate and narrow distal lobe and one or two hook-like ventral lobes. The phallus is short, strongly dilated distally and bears a plate-like dorsal carinal plate protruding toward the vesica. The latter is short, sack-like with one or two diverticula and fields of weak graniculi. In the female genitalia of the species-group, the ovipositor is short and broad, the lateral subostial lobes are weakly sclerotised, the ostium bursae is broad, the ductus bursae is vestigial, the corpus bursae is short, globular or elliptical and densely covered with minute spinules, and the appendix bursae is extremely short and situated laterally.