Ericeia congressa

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

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

  1. ↑ taxapad.com
  2. ↑ afromoths.net
  3. ↑ Walker, F. 1858c. 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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