Hypercompe

Taxobox
name = "Hypercompe"


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image_caption = Giant Leopard Moth, "Hypercompe scribonia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
subordo = Macrolepidoptera
superfamilia = Noctuoidea
familia = Arctiidae
subfamilia = Arctiinae
tribus = Arctiini
genus = "Hypercompe"
genus_authority = Hübner, 1819
synonyms = "Ecpantheria" Hübner, 1820 "Agaposoma" C. Felder, 1874 "Catenina" Burmeister, 1883

"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 without having to be eaten.Fact|date=January 2007

Species

Species include:

*"Hypercompe abdominalis":Recorded food plants include "Brassica" and "Veronica"
*"Hypercompe albescens":Food plant: "Musa"
*"Hypercompe albicornis":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"
*"Hypercompe cermellii":Recorded food plants include "Gossypium", "Plantago" and "Solanum"
*"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":Recorded food plants include "Cissus", "Citrus", "Erythrina", "Ipomoea", "Musa", "Panicum" and "Vanilla"
*"Hypercompe euripides"
*"Hypercompe extrema"
*"Hypercompe flavopunctata"
*"Hypercompe fuscescens"
*"Hypercompe gaujoni"
*"Hypercompe hambletoni":Recorded food plants include "Bidens", "Eriobotrya", "Gossypium", "Hibiscus", "Manihot" and "Ricinus"
*"Hypercompe heterogena"
*"Hypercompe icasia":Recorded food plants include "Apium", "Cecropia", "Cissus", "Citrus", "Erechtites", "Erythrina", "Ipomoea", "Musa", "Phaseolus", "Psidium", "Solanum", "Vanilla"
*"Hypercompe indecisa":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"
*"Hypercompe permaculata" Many-spotted Tiger
*"Hypercompe perplexa"
*"Hypercompe persephone"
*"Hypercompe persola"
*"Hypercompe pertestacea"
*"Hypercompe peruvensis"
*"Hypercompe praeclara"
*"Hypercompe robusta"
*"Hypercompe scribonia", Giant Leopard Moth
*"Hypercompe simplex"
*"Hypercompe suffusa"
*"Hypercompe tenebra"
*"Hypercompe tessellata"
*"Hypercompe testacea"
*"Hypercompe theophila"
*"Hypercompe trinitatis"
*"Hypercompe turruptianoides"

External links

* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/hypercompe/index.html "Hypercompe" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera site]