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Hypercompe cunigunda

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Hypercompe cunigunda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Hypercompe
Species:
H. cunigunda
Binomial name
Hypercompe cunigunda
(Stoll, [1781])
Synonyms
  • Phalaena cunigunda Stoll, [1781]
  • Ecpantheria gunglio Oberthür, 1881
  • Ecpantheria cayennensis Oberthür, 1881
  • Ecpantheria cayennensis var. decipiens Oberthür, 1881

Hypercompe cunigunda is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in French Guiana, Surinam, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia.[1][2]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Melothria pendula.[3]

References

  1. ^ Hypercompe at funet
  2. ^ Arctiinae and Pericopinae of French Guyana
  3. ^ Gernaat, Hajo; Hielkema, Auke; Nijman, Elke; van Andel, Tinde (June 2016). "Host Plant and Late Larval Stages of Hypercompe cunigunda (Erebidae: Arctiinae) in Suriname". Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 70 (2): 163–166. doi:10.18473/lepi.70i2.a13. Retrieved 8 September 2018.