Ericeia congressa
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Ericeia |
| Species: | E. congressa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ericeia congressa | |
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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] It was described by Francis Walker in 1858.
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
- ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Ericeia congressa (Walker 1858)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Ericeia congressa (Walker, 1858)". Afromoths. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
- ^ Walker, F. 1858. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XIV.– - — 14:i–iv, page 1510.