Hypercompe
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| Hypercompe | |
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| Giant Leopard Moth, Hypercompe scribonia |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Arctiidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Tribe: | Spilosomini |
| Genus: | Hypercompe Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Phalaena icasia Cramer, 1777 |
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| Synonyms | |
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Ecpantheria Hübner, 1820 |
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Hypercompe is a genus of moths of the family Arctiidae. There are over 80 species found throughout the Americas. Several species were formerly separated in Ecpantheria which is now regarded as a junior synonym. They are typically large moths with white forewings heavily spotted with black, and brightly-colored abdomens which are exposed when the moth is threatened. This is a form of aposematism; they produce copious amounts of foul-smelling defensive chemicals, which they ooze from special points of weakness on the thorax, to discourage would-be predators.[citation needed]
[edit] Species
Species include:
- Food plant: Musa
- Recorded food plants include Helianthus, Luffa and Phaseolus
- Hypercompe albiscripta
- Hypercompe alpha
- Hypercompe amulaensis
- Hypercompe andromela
- Hypercompe anomala
- Hypercompe atra
- Hypercompe bari
- Hypercompe beckeri
- Hypercompe bolivar
- Hypercompe brasiliensis
- Hypercompe bricenoi
- Hypercompe burmeisteri
- Hypercompe campinasa
- Food plant: Gossypium herbaceum
- Hypercompe castronis
- Hypercompe caudata (Walker, 1855)
- Hypercompe cermellii
- Hypercompe chelifer
- Hypercompe confusa
- Hypercompe conspersa
- Hypercompe contexta
- Hypercompe cotyora
- Hypercompe cretacea
- Hypercompe cunigunda
- Food plant: Syagrus romanzoffiana
- Hypercompe decora
- Hypercompe deflorata
- Hypercompe detecta
- Hypercompe dissimilis
- Hypercompe dognini
- Hypercompe dubia
- Hypercompe ecpantherioides
- Hypercompe eridanus
- Hypercompe euripides
- Hypercompe extrema (Walker, 1855)
- Hypercompe flavopunctata
- Hypercompe fuscescens
- Hypercompe gaujoni
- Hypercompe hambletoni
- Recorded food plants include Apium, Cecropia, Cissus, Citrus, Erechtites, Erythrina, Ipomoea, Musa, Phaseolus, Psidium, Solanum, Vanilla
- Recorded food plants include Beta, Brassica, Citrus, Cucurbita, Datura, Diospyros, Fragaria, Hippeastrum, Leucanthemum, Persea, Pisum, Prunus, Ricinus, Rosa, Senecio, Solanum, Spiraea and Zea
- Hypercompe jaguarina
- Hypercompe kennedyi
- Hypercompe kinkelini
- Hypercompe laeta
- Hypercompe lemairei
- Hypercompe leucarctioides
- Hypercompe magdelenae
- Hypercompe marcescens
- Hypercompe melanoleuca
- Hypercompe mielkei
- Hypercompe mus
- Hypercompe muzina
- Food plant: Theobroma cacao
- Hypercompe nemophila
- Hypercompe neurophylla
- Hypercompe nigriloba
- Hypercompe nigriplaga
- Hypercompe obscura
- Hypercompe obsolescens
- Hypercompe obtecta
- Hypercompe ockendeni
- Hypercompe ocularia
- Hypercompe ochreator
- Hypercompe orbiculata
- Hypercompe orsa
- Recorded food plants include Lantana, Senecio and Sphagneticola
- Hypercompe oslari (Rothschild, [1910])
- Hypercompe permaculata (Packard, 1872) Many-spotted Tiger
- Hypercompe perplexa
- Hypercompe persephone
- Hypercompe persola
- Hypercompe pertestacea
- Hypercompe peruvensis
- Hypercompe praeclara
- Hypercompe robusta
- Hypercompe scribonia (Stoll, [1790]), Giant Leopard Moth
- Hypercompe simplex
- Hypercompe suffusa (Schaus, 1889)
- Hypercompe tenebra
- Hypercompe tessellata
- Hypercompe testacea
- Hypercompe theophila
- Hypercompe trinitatis
- Hypercompe turruptianoides
[edit] Gallery
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