Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
Ericeia congressa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It is known to be found in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion.
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:
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.