Siccia pallens Hampson 1918
Authors/Creators
- 1. The African Natural History Research Trust (ANHRT), Street Court Leominster, Kingsland, HR 6 9 QA, UK. E-mail: anton @ anhrt. org. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9447 - 4925 & Altai State University, Lenina Avenue 61, RF- 656049, Barnaul, Russia.
Description
(Figs 243–246, 436, 437, 523)
Siccia pallens Hampson, 1918, Novitates Zoologicae, 25 (1): 104 (Type locality: [South Sudan] “ Uganda, Gondokoro”).
Type material examined. Holotype (by monotypy) (Figs 243, 436): male, “Gondokoro, | White Nile. | W.E.Reymes-Cole. | 1908-62.” / “ Siccia | pallens. | type ♀. Hmpsn.” / red ring label “Type | H.T.” / “ Arctiidae | Brit. Mus. slide | No. 6043 ♂ ” / QR-code label with unique number “NHMUK 010914282” (NHMUK).
Additional material examined. ETHIOPIA: 1 male, Southern Province, ca. 320 km SW Addis Abeba, road Konso-Weyto, 5 km SE Weyto, 1600m, 13.xi.2010, de Freina leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2020-037 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM/ ZSM); 2 males, Southern, 05°21'18''N 37°02'34''E, 6 km ENE Weyto, Segen river, 11.xi. 2010, 600m, J. De Freina, H. Hacker, H. Peks, H.-P. Schreier leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2021-214 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM/ ZSM); 2 females, Oromia, 04°57'50''N 37°52'55''E, 1 km W vill. Aluweya, 10.xi.2010, 1300m, J. De Freina, H. Hacker, H. Pels, H.-P. Schreier leg., gen. prep. No.: ZSM Arct. 2021-215 (prepared by Volynkin) (MWM/ ZSM).
Note. Hampson determined the sex of the type specimen as female whereas it is in fact a male.
Diagnosis. The forewing length is 6.5–7.5 mm in males and 7.0 mm in females. Siccia pallens is similar to S. tridens, the detailed comparison is provided below in the diagnosis of the latter species.
Molecular data. Currently unavailable for this species.
Distribution. The species is known from South Sudan (Hampson 1918) and Ethiopia.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZSM
- Event date
- 2010-11-10 , 2010-11-11 , 2010-11-13
- Verbatim event date
- 2010-11-10 , 2010-11-11 , 2010-11-13
- Scientific name authorship
- Hampson
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Siccia
- Species
- pallens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Siccia pallens Hampson, 1918 sec. Volynkin, 2023
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1918) Descriptions of new genera and species of Amatidae, Lithosidae, and Noctuidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 25 (1), 93 - 217.