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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| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- OD: Aemene tenebrosa Moore, 1878. Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London, pg 34. Text at https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen78zool/page/34/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, # 1389.
- Siccia tenebrosa Moore, Hampson, G. F. 1900. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalanae in the British Museum, Vol. 2, pg. 397, #845, & Pl. 29/13. Text at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid2brituoft/page/397/mode/1up?view=theater. Plate at https://archive.org/details/catalogueoflepid13brit/page/n139/mode/2up?view=theater
- Singh, N., Ahmad, J. and Joshi, R., 2018. Moths (Lepidoptera) diversity of district Koderma, Jharkhand. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 6(2), pp.1253-1263.
- 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.
- https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/collections-online#/item/oum-catalogue-398089
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1152227-Aemene-tenebrosa
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Siccia tenebrosa (Moore, 1878) – . 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-tenebrosa, accessed 2026/03/18.