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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

Siccia pallens Hampson, 1918

(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.

Notes

Published as part of 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), pp. 1-184 in Ecologica Montenegrina 64 on page 89, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.64.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13248512

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Additional details

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.