Siccia sinuata (Moore, 1878)

Joshi, Rahul, Zahiri, Reza, Banerjee, Diya & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of the Erebidae of India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea), Zootaxa 5635 (1), pp. 1-247 : 32

75. Siccia sinuata (Moore, 1878) : 34 ( Aemene )

TL: Meghalaya Cherrapunji

Distribution: India (Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Karnataka, West Bengal (Darjeeling), Nepal.

Genus Spilarctia Butler, 1875: 39

TS: Phalaena lutea Hufnagel, 1766: 412 (but included by Butler as lubricipeda Linnaeus , a misidentification), by subsequent designation by Kirby (1877): 431 (but cited as P. lubricipeda Linnaeus ). Butler (1875) included Phalaena lubricipeda Linnaeus, 1758: 505 , in Spilarctia , and Kirby (1877), designated it as the type species. Kirby (1892: 227) indicated that the true lubricipeda Linnaeus, 1758 , was the senior subjective synonym of Phalaena lubricipeda alba Hufnagel, 1776 , and also of Bombyx menthastri [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775, (the type species of Spilosoma Curtis, 1825 ). Kirby (1892) indicated that Phalaena lubricipeda lutea Hufnagel, 1766 , was the valid name for lubricipeda Linnaeus, 1758 , var. beta , and for lubricipeda sensu Butler, 1875 . Nye & Fletcher (1980) provided the above explantiona and recommended to send the case to the commission.