Hypercompe icasia
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| taxon = Hypercompe icasia
| authority = (Cramer, [1777])
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- Phalaena icasia Cramer, [1777]
- Bombyx lantanae Fabricius, 1793
- Hypercombe eridane Hübner, [1819]
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Hypercompe icasia is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1777. It is widely distributed in South America{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/hypercompe/#icasia |title=Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, [1777]) |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=August 17, 2019}} and is also found on Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Thomas, and Puerto Rico.{{cite web |url=http://www7.inra.fr/papillon/arctiid/texteng/h_icasia.htm |title=Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, 1777) |website=Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles |accessdate=September 16, 2019}}
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Apium, Cecropia, Cissus, Citrus, Erechtites, Erythrina, Ipomoea, Musa, Phaseolus, Psidium, Solanum, and Vanilla species.
References
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- {{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Moths described in 1777
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
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