Ericeia congressa

Ericeia congressa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is known to be found in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.[2] It was described by Francis Walker in 1858.

Ericeia congressa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Ericeia
Species:
E. congressa
Binomial name
Ericeia congressa
(Walker, 1858)[1]
Synonyms
  • Remigia congressa Walker, 1858
  • Hulodes sandii Guenée, 1862

The wingspan was described as 18 lines (38 mm) and the body length as 8 lines (18 mm).

In Walker's List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, he wrote:

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.[3]

References
  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ericeia congressa (Walker 1858)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Ericeia congressa (Walker, 1858)". Afromoths. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  3. Walker, F. 1858. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIV.– - — 14:i–iv, page 1510.


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