Siccia faucaria, 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 : 41

The S. faucaria species-group

Diagnosis. The only known species of the species-group has male genitalia reminiscent of those of the S. duodecimpunctata species-group but differs in the swollen distal section of the costa bearing sparse spinules, the spinulose ventral margin of the valva, and the vesica having markedly larger diverticula (more similar to that of certain members of the S. cretata species-group). In the female genitalia, the lateral sclerotised plates of the ostium bursae and the large and conical appendix bursae distinguish the S. faucaria species-group from the S. duodecimpunctata species-group.