Hypercompe cunigunda

Hypercompe cunigunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
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 Syagrus romanzoffiana.

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