# Hypercompe simplex

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{{Short description|Species of moth}}
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| taxon = Hypercompe simplex
| authority = ([Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), 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](/source/moth) of the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae) [first described](/source/Species_description) by [Francis Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)) in 1855. It is found in [Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico), as well as on the [Virgin Islands](/source/Virgin_Islands) and the [Lesser Antilles](/source/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](/source/Hypercompe_icasia)''.</ref>

The larvae feed on ''[Cedrella](/source/Cedrella)'', ''[Cissus](/source/Cissus)'', ''[Erechtotes](/source/Erechtotes)'', ''[Erythrina](/source/Erythrina)'', ''[Ipomaea](/source/Ipomaea)'' and ''[Solanum torvum](/source/Solanum_torvum)''.

==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:Hypercompe
Category:Moths described in 1855
Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)

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