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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.

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]

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