''Erygia precedens'' is a

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of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics to Australia,

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and

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

. Adults are similar to ''

Erygia antecedens ''Erygia antecedens'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Mariti ...

'', but the forewings have a paler ground colour and are slightly deeper and more produced apically in ''antecedens''. The larvae have been recorded feeding on ''

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'' species.

References

Moths described in 1852 Erygia Moths of Asia Moths of Oceania {{Erebinae-stub