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Hypercompe scribonia (Giant Leopard Moth)

Synonyms: Ecpantheria deflorata; Hypercompe chryseis; Hypercompe confluens (heterotypic); Hypercompe denudata

Wikipedia Abstract

The giant leopard moth or eyed tiger moth (Hypercompe scribonia) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is distributed throughout the Americas from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico and up to Colombia. The obsolete name Ecpantheria scribonia is still occasionally encountered.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.874 inches (.073 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Gymnocarcelia ricinorum[3]
Juriniopsis adusta[3]
Juriniopsis floridensis[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Auditory influences on the flight behaviour of moths in a Nearctic site. I. Flight tendency, Scott B. Morrill and James H. Fullard, CAN. J. ZOOL. VOL. 70, 1992, pp. 1097-1101
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0