diff --git a/modin/pandas/base.py b/modin/pandas/base.py
index 6779c47dc9b..98d2e1d1520 100644
--- a/modin/pandas/base.py
+++ b/modin/pandas/base.py
@@ -1005,11 +1005,7 @@ def astype(self, dtype, copy=None, errors="raise"):  # noqa: PR01, RT01, D200
         # convert it to a dict before passing it to the query compiler.
         if isinstance(dtype, (pd.Series, pandas.Series)):
             if not dtype.index.is_unique:
-                raise ValueError(
-                    "The new Series of types must have a unique index, i.e. "
-                    + "it must be one-to-one mapping from column names to "
-                    + " their new dtypes."
-                )
+                raise ValueError("cannot reindex on an axis with duplicate labels")
             dtype = {column: dtype for column, dtype in dtype.items()}
         # If we got a series or dict originally, dtype is a dict now. Its keys
         # must be column names.
diff --git a/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_map_metadata.py b/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_map_metadata.py
index a47ab0cd850..40e1a7aded6 100644
--- a/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_map_metadata.py
+++ b/modin/pandas/test/dataframe/test_map_metadata.py
@@ -439,6 +439,9 @@ def test_astype():
             if isinstance(df, pd.DataFrame)
             else pandas.Series([str, str], index=["col1", "col1"])
         ),
+        raising_exceptions=ValueError(
+            "cannot reindex on an axis with duplicate labels"
+        ),
     )
 
 
diff --git a/modin/pandas/test/utils.py b/modin/pandas/test/utils.py
index b350b9aa934..258e4af6b7d 100644
--- a/modin/pandas/test/utils.py
+++ b/modin/pandas/test/utils.py
@@ -900,10 +900,18 @@ def execute_callable(fn, inplace=False, md_kwargs={}, pd_kwargs={}):
                 ), "Got Modin Exception type {}, but pandas Exception type {} was expected".format(
                     type(md_e), type(pd_e)
                 )
-                if raising_exceptions:
+                if raising_exceptions and isinstance(raising_exceptions, (list, tuple)):
                     assert not isinstance(
                         md_e, tuple(raising_exceptions)
                     ), f"not acceptable exception type: {md_e}"
+                elif raising_exceptions and type(raising_exceptions) is type:
+                    assert (
+                        type(md_e) is type(raising_exceptions)
+                        and md_e.args == raising_exceptions.args
+                    ), f"not acceptable Modin's exception: [{repr(md_e)}]"
+                    assert (
+                        pd_e.args == raising_exceptions.args
+                    ), f"not acceptable Pandas' exception: [{repr(pd_e)}]"
             else:
                 raise NoModinException(
                     f"Modin doesn't throw an exception, while pandas does: [{repr(pd_e)}]"