Hypercompe brasiliensis (Oberthür, 1881)

Oberthür, C. (1881). Études d'Entomologie, 6e livraison. Lépidoptères
d'Amérique. IV. Le genre Ecpantheria: p. 111, pl. XIX, figs 2 (male), 3, 6
(female). Described as Ecpantheria brasiliensis. Translated from the French
original.

Brasiliensis, Oberthür (pl. XIX, male, fig. 2; female, figs 3 and 6).

Brazil (Palmer).
The female is very variable; the male appears fairly constant.

Seitz, A. (1920). Ecpantheria. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 316, pl. 40 e.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 316.) Treated as a form
of E. laeta Wkr.; the braziliensis sentence is part of the laeta paragraph,
which is quoted in full:

E. laeta Wkr. (40 e) is very closely allied to magdalenae, but the forewing
shows also in the male 2 broad chains of spots, in the hindwings the whole
inner-marginal half and besides the apex are sooty. The female scarcely
differs from the preceding species, but it shows the chains of spots somewhat
torn, and on the dark hindwings mostly also light cell-end spots. -- praeclara
Oberth. (40 e) has diaphanous pale yellow male hindwings with an ochreous
tinge at the proximal margin. Venezuela and Colombia. -- braziliensis Oberth.
(40 e) has the male hindwings diaphanous white, only the anal tooth being
sooty, and the distal chain of spots of the forewing being composed of
smaller spots. The author mentions "Brazil" as its habitat; probably it is
meant to the north of it.

The species laeta is compared with, magdalenae ("the preceding species"), is
described by Seitz on the same page (p. 316, pl. 40 d, e) as follows:

E. magdalenae Oberth. (40 d, e). Through the middle of the forewing a broad
chain of spots, in the female another one through the marginal third;
between, as well as at the distal and costal margins small dark spots.
Hindwings in the male white, with a sooty black proximal margin, in the
female grey, the margin marked yellow. Colombia; the figured male I obtained
from Rio de Janeiro, where it was reported to have been captured. --
steinbachi Rothsch. is larger, the proximal chain of spots of the forewing
more remote from the base, so that the 3 bands of the forewing are closer
together, the anal tooth of the male longer; Bolivia.