Hypercompe
| Hypercompe | |
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| Giant leopard moth, Hypercompe scribonia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Arctiini |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Hypercompe Hübner, 1819[1] |
| Type species | |
| Phalaena icasia Cramer, 1777 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Hypercompe is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. Over 80 species in the genus are found throughout the Americas. The moths are typically large with white forewings heavily spotted with black and with brightly colored abdomens which are exposed when the moths are threatened. This is a form of aposematism. The moths produce copious amounts of foul-smelling defensive chemicals, which they ooze from special points of weakness on their thoraces, to discourage potential predators.
Taxonomy
Several species were formerly separated in Ecpantheria, which is now regarded as a junior synonym.
Species
The genus includes the following species.
- Hypercompe abdominalis
- Hypercompe albescens
- Hypercompe albicornis
- 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
- Hypercompe castronis
- Hypercompe caudata (Walker, 1855)
- Hypercompe cermellii
- Hypercompe chelifer
- Hypercompe confusa
- Hypercompe conspersa
- Hypercompe contexta
- Hypercompe cotyora
- Hypercompe cretacea
- Hypercompe cunigunda
- 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 ganglio
- Hypercompe gaujoni
- Hypercompe guyanensis
- Hypercompe hambletoni
- Hypercompe heterogena
- Hypercompe icasia
- Hypercompe indecisa
- Hypercompe jaguarina
- Hypercompe kennedyi
- Hypercompe kinkelini
- Hypercompe laeta
- Hypercompe lemairei
- Hypercompe leucarctioides
- Hypercompe magdelenae
- Hypercompe marcescens
- Hypercompe melanoleuca
- Hypercompe mielkei
- Hypercompe mus
- Hypercompe muzina
- Hypercompe nemophila
- Hypercompe neurophylla
- Hypercompe nigriloba
- Hypercompe nigriplaga
- Hypercompe obscura
- Hypercompe obsolescens
- Hypercompe obtecta
- Hypercompe ockendeni
- Hypercompe ocularia
- Hypercompe ochreator
- Hypercompe orbiculata
- Hypercompe orsa
- Hypercompe oslari (Rothschild, [1910])
- Hypercompe permaculata (Packard, 1872) nany-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
Gallery
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References
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