Hypercompe
{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
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Hypercompe scribonia
| taxon = Hypercompe
| authority = Hübner, 1819
| type_species = Phalaena icasia
| type_species_authority = Cramer, 1777
| synonyms =
- Ecpantheria Hübner, 1820
- Agaposoma C. Felder, 1874
- Catenina Burmeister, 1883
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Hypercompe is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/hypercompe/ |title=Hypercompe Hübner, [1819] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |access-date=August 17, 2019}}
Taxonomy
Several species were formerly separated in Ecpantheria, which is now regarded as a junior synonym.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
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- 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 cermelii
- 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 magdalenae
- 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) 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
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References
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