Taxonomic Information
Siccia Walker, 1854 species known from India.
Siccia albisparsa (Hampson, 1898). India: NE India, Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Siccia amnaea (Swinhoe, 1894). India: NE India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Siccia flavescens Hampson, 1898. India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Siccia fulvocincta (Hampson, 1900). India: S. India (TL: Nilgiris).
Siccia maculifascia (Moore, 1878). India: NE India, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal.
Siccia guttulosana (Walker, 1863). India; North India, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal; Sri Lanka.
Siccia mesozonata Hampson, 1898. India: NE India, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh.
Siccia minima (Hampson, 1900). India: West Bengla; Sri Lanka (TL).
Siccia nilgirica (Hampson, 1891). India: S India; Sri Lanka.
Siccia nocturna (Hampson, 1900). India: India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasi Hills).
Siccia quinquefascia (Hampson, 1891). India: S. India, Tamil Nadu (TL: Nilgiris).
Siccia sagittifera (Moore, 1888). India: Himachal Pradesh (TL: Dharmsala), Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, West Bengal.
Siccia seriata Hampson, 1900. India: NE India, Thailand.
Siccia sordida (Butler, 1877). India: Coimbatore (TL), Punjab, Himachal Pradesh.; Sri Lanka. Aemene subcinerea Moore, 1878 is a synonym.
Siccia spotoptera (N. Singh & Kirti, 2016). India: Kerala.
Siccia taprobanis (Walker, 1854). India; Sri Lanka; Nepal; W and SW China.
Siccia tenebrosa (Moore, 1878). India: Maharashtra (TL: Mumbai), Madhya Pradesh.
Note: As per Volynkin et al (2023), the genus Aemene Walker, 1854 stands revised to Siccia Walker, 1854.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Uttarakhand | 2 | ||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 3 | 1 | 3 |
- Aemene sagittifera Moore, 1888. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, 1888 pg 392. TL: Dharmsala, Himachal Pradesh. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen88zool/page/391/mode/1up?view=theater
- Siccia sagittifera Hampson, 1900, Cat. Lep. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 2: 392, f. 305. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid2brituoft/page/392/mode/1up?view=theater
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs. Pg 93, #1391.
- Seitz,A. (Ed.) 1910. The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol 2 pg 53 & Pl 17c as Siccia sagittifera.
- Volynkin, A.V., Černý, K. and Ivanova, M.S., 2017. Description of a new Aemene Walker, 1854 from North Thailand and Myanmar, with a checklist of the genus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zootaxa, 4306(3), pp. 444-450.
- Singh, N. ,Joshi, R.,Kirti, J. S.,Bisht, S. S., & H. S. Param. 2021. A catalogue of Indian Arctiinae (Erebidae, Lepidoptera). Zootaxa 5058 (1): 001–118.
- Volynkin, A.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.
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=956108 [accessed 01 August 2021]
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Siccia sagittifera (Moore, 1888) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/siccia-sagittifera, accessed 2026/03/18.