Siccia malfakassa, 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 : 81

The S. malfakassa species-group

Diagnosis. The male genital capsule structure of the species-group is similar to that of the S. overlaeti species-group but distinguished by the valvae proximally connected by a thick commissure, and the costa bearing an elongate and dense cluster of robust spinules. The phallus and the vesica structures are similar to those of the S. overlaeti species-group. The female genitalia ground plan of the group is similar to the S. overlaeti species-group but differs in the membranous corpus and appendix bursae, which are densely covered with minute spinules in the S. overlaeti species-group.