Hypercompe icasia
| Hypercompe icasia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Hypercompe |
| Species: | H. icasia |
| Binomial name | |
| Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, [1777]) | |
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Hypercompe icasia is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is widely distributed in South America[1] and is also found on Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, St. Thomas and Puerto Rico.[2]
Larvae have been recorded feeding on Apium, Cecropia, Cissus, Citrus, Erechtites, Erythrina, Ipomoea, Musa, Phaseolus, Psidium, Solanum, Vanilla species.
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