Hypercompe permaculata

Many-spotted tiger moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Hypercompe
Species: H. permaculata
Binomial name
Hypercompe permaculata
Packard, 1872

Hypercompe permaculata, the many-spotted tiger moth, is a tiger moth of the family Erebidae and one of more than 80 species of Hypercompe. It is native to the western United States and parts of northern Mexico.


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