Ericeia congressa
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Hulodini |
| Genus: | Ericeia |
| Species: | E. congressa |
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| Ericeia congressa (Walker, 1858)[1] | |
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Ericeia congressa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is known to be found in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.[2]
The wingspan was described by Walker with 38 mm (18 lines), body length: 18 mm (8 lines).
The original description of Walker from 1858 is:[3]
Remigia congressa
Male. Cinereous, speckled with black. Hind tarsi densely pilose. Wings with the usual lines black, slender, incomplete, much denticulated; a diffuse bronish band, including the whitish denticulated submarignal line; a row of submarginal black points, and a slender black interrupted marginal line. Fore wings acute, hardly subfalcate; a dark cinereous apical patch, four white costal subapical points; orbicular forming a brown dot; reniform brownish, subquadrate. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 18 lines.
a, b. Port Natal. From Gueinzius' collection.
c. Ashanti. From Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection.
References
- ↑ taxapad.com
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Walker, F. 1858c. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIV.– - — 14:i–iv, page 1510.