{{Short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Hypercompe simplex | authority = (Walker, 1855) | synonyms = *''Ecpantheria simplex'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Ecpantheria obliterata'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Ecpantheria guadulpensis'' <small>Oberthür, 1881</small> }}
'''''Hypercompe simplex''''' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Puerto Rico, as well as on the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles.<ref>{{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 18, 2019}} Note: This source places ''Hypercompe simplex'' as a synonym of ''Hypercompe icasia''.</ref>
The larvae feed on ''Cedrella'', ''Cissus'', ''Erechtotes'', ''Erythrina'', ''Ipomaea'' and ''Solanum torvum''.
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{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:Hypercompe Category:Moths described in 1855 Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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